Nothing in the world is worth ruining my good mood over
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Edita Svobodová was born on 9 May 1926 in Prague. The family lived in Libuš, south of Prague. Her father died when she was four years old, her mother was a doctor with her own practice. The family eventually settled in Zbraslav in 1937, and her mother became friends with Vladislav Vančura. Edita graduated from high school in Chrudim and in order not to have to go to forced labour in Germany after graduation in 1944, she worked for some time in Madeta Tábor and in a poultry farm in Veselí nad Lužnicí. At the end of the war, she experienced raids of boilermakers, and during the May Uprising she and her mother helped in the infirmary in Zbraslav. After February 1948, her grandfather lost the Št’astný company, which operated a goose shop. A lifelong hobby of the witness was amateur theatre.
