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Bedřich Zedníček was born July 30, 1922 in Dlouhá Ves near Kojetín in Moravia to František and Žofie Zedníček. He spent his childhood and youth in Vrchoslavice and in Zlín. He had two sisters, elder Jiřina and younger Jindřiška. His father died of tuberculosis in 1933 and the widowed mother of three children had a hard time to make ends meet. When he was fourteen years old, Bedřich became employed in the Baťa factory in Zlín where he began his vocational training as a machine modeller. In 1942 he was sent to Vienna to do forced labour there, but he managed to escape and return to the Protectorate twice. After his second escape he then stayed in his native region in his uncle’s home in Hoštice-Heroltice until the end of the war. After the war he began working in Baťa factory again, but the company soon became nationalized. Bedřich continued working there until 1989 when he retired. Bedřich has two children - son Pavel, who became a well-known actor, and daughter Dagmar, who is a psychologist. He lives in Brno.
