My parents often moaned in their sleep

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Jiřina Somsiová, née Danielová, was born on 13 September 1949 in Bílovice near Uherské Hradiště. Her parents survived the Holocaust - they lost three children in Auschwitz. Jiřina was one of eight children; she grew up in humble conditions. In 1956 the family moved to Olomouc, where Jiřina Somsiová lives to this day. She was employed as a caretaker at a nursery school, but her main calling was to manage a low-threshold facility and advisory centre for the socially excluded in Olomouc.