One should not be subject to random failure
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Marie Sulíková, née Vajdlová, was born on March 31, 1934 in Prague. She lived with her parents in Lahovičky, they raised her in the Sokol spirit. Even before the war, she attended the Boy Scouts, then the general school in Zbraslav and from 1944 Drtinovo real gymnasium in Prague in Smíchov. But the school building was taken by the Germans and classes took place in the building of the burghers’ school in Vltavská street. At the end of the war, she experienced the bombing of Prague, hiding in a shelter several times. Next to their house in Lahovičky, the background of the circus was located. Together with other children, the witness went to pet exotic animals. In May 1945, together with her friend, Ladislav Balabán, she helped build barricades in Zbraslav. The local greengrocer Kail lent the insurgents a supply truck, which they then used to transport weapons seized from the troops at Zbraslav castle to Prague. The retreating German army captured all the men in Zbraslav and led them towards Chuchle, along with Maria’s grandfather and uncle. The father managed to escape to Slivenec with other men, and he did not return until May 9, 1945. Marie Sulíková started teaching after high school, and then completed her university degree by distance learning with a degree in natural history and geography. After 1968, she expressed her disapproval of the regime, fortunately she was not expelled from education. She taught at primary schools, for example in Klecany, Vodochody, Davle and Radotín. She retired only in 1992. She does not like to remember the year 2002, when a big flood flooded her house.
