What is talked about at home I must not say elsewhere
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Milena Tesařová was born on 2 December 1936 in Brno to parents Milada and Vladimír Němec. Her father, Prof. Vladimír Němec, was condemned for resistance activities during the World War II and executed in Mauthausen on 7 May 1942. She herself witnessed the Gestapo search of her home, the bombing and other events connected with the end of the war in Brno and its surroundings. The family was distantly related to paratrooper Karel Svoboda, who was one of the original members of the Anthropoid group. After the war, her mother remarried to Ing. Ivan Korolkov, a refugee from Bolshevik Russia, a widower who had a son, Petr, from his first marriage. After 1948 she had problems with the street committee’s assessment but managed to graduate from the Building Industry School in Brno in 1956. In 1960 she married Oldřich Tesař and they had a daughter Dana (1962) and twins Vladimír and Ivan (1966). She lived through the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968 in Brno and during the vetting process in the 1970s she clearly opposed the occupation. She worked as a project architect at the Railway Construction company in Brno. She trained in Sokol, was a scout since childhood and was actively involved in the revival of Junák in 1968 and after 1990. She took part in several demonstrations in 1989 and in May 1990 in the first Scout assembly in Prague. After the death of her husband, she lives alone in Brno and devotes herself to her grandchildren and the history of her family (2022).
