It was only after the war that I learnt that we had been carrying messages for partisans

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Alena Strnadová, née Brzicová, was born February 20, 1933 in Prostějov. Her father Vilém Brzica was gathering intelligence for the partisan group led by Josef Knoll during WWII. Alena unknowingly participated on the group’s activities as well, when she was carrying food and medicines for the partisans in her backpack. After the war she studied at the Jiří Wolker Grammar School in Prostějov and when she graduated in 1951, she continued her studies at the Faculty of Medicine at Palacký University in Olomouc and later she transferred to Masaryk University in Brno. In 1957 she graduated and she moved to Kostelec na Hané, where she was working as a paediatrician until 1992. She still lives in Kostelec na Hané.