"We lived through the war in Týneček, but in the middle of the village there was a big malt house that was bombed. We had nowhere to hide, so my parents and I went to a cottage above Dolany, where we stayed in the cellar. I slept in a bathtub. But in the cellar the air was damp and I got these big sores on my head, they called it... We had to wash it with herbs, they gave me ointments. We thought I wouldn't have any hair, but on the contrary - I had so much hair that when we went to the barber they had to cut it, comb it out so they could get scissors and cut it. So it ended up well with my hair."
"Yeah, I remember that. It was in May and there was a festival in Chválkovice that my friend and I wanted to go to, but unfortunately it was all stopped. My dad was giving me a hundred crowns and I said, 'What's the use? It's closed, there won't be anything there.' He was giving me that to buy something, but it didn't happen, it didn't happen at all."
"When I was leaving school, I wanted to go to the secondary medical school. I had to have a reference and they wrote... What did it say... that they didn't recommend it. Because at that time they were setting up cooperative farms. We didn't have fields or anything [like that], but they kept [appealing] to my father to join the cooperative farm, that farmers from the area would join. He said, 'No, I'm not a farmer, I don't even know it, I'm a trained butcher!' It ended up that I didn't get anywhere. Then my friend and I did [a course in] shorthand and typing, and it wasn't until a long time later, after about two years, that I found a job with Stavomontáže as a materials accountant. Then after my maternity leave, because there was a need [for someone], I started working in Bohuňovice at the sawmill, where I did payroll and accounting work, with invoicing."
Jaroslava Grolichová, née Nádvorníková, was born on 17 December 1941 in Týneček near Šternberk. She grew up in the family of Josef Nádvorník, a trained butcher, and Aloisie Nádvorníková, who worked in a dairy. The family lived in Týneček during the Second World War, but later moved to a cottage above the village of Dolany due to the bombing, where they lived in the cellar together with other relatives. After the war, the Nádvorník family returned to Týneček. Their father lost his property after 1948 as a result of nationalisation, which hit the family hard. He was also pushed to join a cooperative farm, although the family did not own any fields - he refused to join. Jaroslava did not receive a recommendation to study at secondary school. She took a course in shorthand and typing. She worked in Stavomontáže as a material accountant and after her maternity leave she joined the sawmill in Bohuňovice, where she was in charge of payroll and accounting. She got married in 1962 and together with her husband they raised a son Milan and a daughter Ivana (born in 1964). The couple divorced in the 1980s. Jaroslava Grolichová died in 2021.
Wedding 1962, from top left: husband's brother Jan, newlyweds, Jaroslava's brother Josef, Jan's children Helena and Ivo and on the right brother's children Josef and Jindřiška
Wedding 1962, from top left: husband's brother Jan, newlyweds, Jaroslava's brother Josef, Jan's children Helena and Ivo and on the right brother's children Josef and Jindřiška
