I still remembers the bombs falling
Adolf Zeman was born on the 1st of July in 1933 in Brno. During the First Republic, his father had apprenticed as a pastry chef in the Zora pastry factory in Olomouc and this way, he inspired his son. The witness started working as an apprentice in Brno in the Zeman Café at the age of 15 (the establishment was nationalised in 1945). Adolf Zeman worked his way up to the post of the manager of the Café but even before, the past of his father who had run his own shop has caught up with him and the Communists sent him to work in the coal mines. Adolf spent almost a year in Ostrava – Heřmanice. He lost most of his savings he had accumulated from his high salary of a miner in the monetary reform of 1953. After his return to Brno, he wanted to continue his job as a pastry chef but he could not find such a job so he ended up selling refreshments at the Brno exhibition ground. At the end of the 1960’s, he worked in Zeman Café again, however, he was threatened with expulsion again. A certain chairman of a Workers’ Committee spoke in his favour so Adolf kept his job. After the 1989 Velvet Revolution, Adolf Zeman attempted to buy the coffee house but he did not manage to. He has been working in the Zeman Café until these days (2018).
