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Anna Hurychová was born in Podkrkonoší on April 25, 1947, as the older of two sisters. Both her parents worked in agriculture. She attended elementary school in Mlázovice and secondary school in nearby Ostroměř. After studying at the Secondary General Education School in Hořice in the Podkrkonoší region, she enrolled at the Pedagogical Institute in Hradec Králové. In the summer of 1968, she left for a six-week work stay at Butlin‘s Camp in England, where she heard the news of the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops. Despite the possibility of remaining there as an emigrant, she decided to return home. After completing her studies, she taught briefly in Jičín, then for four years in Miletín, from where she moved to Prague to teach at Hanspaulka Elementary School. At university, she refused to join the Communist Party, but at Hanspaulka she was forced to do so by the circumstances. She taught mathematics and art there for 15 years and was elected chairwoman of the ROH trade union. In 1989, she began teaching at the Františka Plamínková Elementary School in Prague, where she became principal a year later. In November 1989, she and her nephew took part in anti-regime rallies and demonstrations at Letná and Wenceslas Square, and she immediately left the Communist Party. She taught at the Františka Plamínková Elementary School until 2007, when she retired. In 2023, she lived in Prague.
