Germans were allowed to take eight kilos per person. The Czechs still took some from that
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Jarmila Vítovská was born on 27 August 1930 in Poděbrady. After the death of her mother Terezie Mayerová, married name Hojná, her father Stanislav Hojný remarried. However, his second wife, Marie Mayerová-Hojná, also died and Jarmila Vítovská moved to her aunt Františka Richterová’s mixed Czech-German family in the Sudetenland in 1942. She was the only Czech girl to attend a German school. She experienced the savage removal of Germans from Úštěk, the arrival of the Red Army and the Revolutionary Guards. In 1950 she married and moved to Prague. Her husband Zdeněk Vítovský was totally deployed and later worked in Germany for the American army. He joined the Communist Party and left in 1964. His daughter Zdena Vítovská witnessed the shelling of Czechoslovak Radio in 1968. Son Petr Vítovský co-founded the Civic Forum in 1989. Jarmila Vítovská has been retired since 1985 and lived in Prague-Malešice in 2024. She died on 12 November 2024.
