I still get goosebumps when I hear sirens
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Eva Učíková, nee. Krčmová, born on 11 July 1932 in Brno as the only child of Oldřich Krčma and Marie, nee. Ševčíková. Her mother graduated from a school for women’s professions, she was one of seven children, her parents had a restaurant in Žabovřesky in Brno. Father lived with his parents in Brno, Husovice, where grandfather bought a house. He worked at the post office in the Alfa arcade on today’s Poštovská Street in Brno. During the bombing of the city in 1945 he was buried there and imprisoned for three days. Eva Učíková grew up in the middle of the war. At the age of seven, she had to go alone to the garden shelter at night, her mother was forced to work and both parents worked night shifts. When her mother stopped going to the factory towards the end of the war so as not to leave her daughter alone, she was threatened with arrest by the Gestapo. The family fled to the father’s friend in Trpín. After the war, the father was offered the job of postmaster in Šternberk. He moved there alone at first, his mother and daughter followed him later. Eva studied for two years at the family school for women’s professions in Olomouc (Pöttingeum). She then worked as an accountant in a textile wholesaler in Šternberk until her retirement. In 1951, she married Karel Učík, a professional soldier who was expelled from the army in the 1950s. He was later restored to his rank. They raised two sons, Karel (1952) and Richard (1962). In 2024, at the time of filming, she was living in Šternberk.
