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Jana Vítková (* 1939)

People are afraid to say the word home country so that it is not just a blank motto. Like when we wore banners with the Soviet Union for the eternity.

  • born on December 3, 1939 in Rakovník

  • father Josef Klouček anti-Nazi resistance fighter, a member of the Defense of the Nation, belonged to the group of Jaroslav Fraňek (spy agent)

  • in 1941 his father was imprisoned in the Terezín Small Fortress, he drew dozens of portraits there, now they are stored in the Small Fortress Memorial

  • Father arrested three months after the birth of his daughter and died in prison in 1943

  • after 1948 the property of the family was expropriated, due to the class origin she was not allowed to enter university

  • worked in education, as a history and Czech teacher at the second stage of primary school for the longest time

  • in 1989 she helped in the Civic Forum in Mariánské Lázně

  • is a widow, lives in Mariánské Lázně

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