I spoiled a classmate by taking her to the cinema to see an American film
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MUDr. Helena Jarošová, née Košatková, was born on 16 July 1937 in Košice. Both parents came from farmers families in southern Bohemia. Her father František Košatka was a lawyer and tax official, her mother Blažena Košatková, née Prokopová, was educated at the family school. The Košatkas first lived in Slovakia, where their father established tax offices. After the constitution of the Slovak state in 1939, they returned to the Protectorate for security reasons and settled in Tábor. During the war their son Jiří was born. Helena Jarošová spent the liberation with her relatives on a farm in Vlastec. After February 1948, the family was subjected to communist repression on both her mother‘s and father‘s side. Uncle Josef Mára was accused of sabotage and imprisoned, Aunt Marie was sentenced to six months in prison for speaking out against the communists, and they and their children were deported to the borderlands as part of the „Kulak“ action. The family also lost the family farm in Krašlovice on their mother‘s side. The father was fired from his position as head of the tax office and worked as a laborer, later he was called back to the office in the newly formed Soběslav district. Helena Jarošová was not allowed to study or get an apprenticeship and was supposed to work as a construction worker. The reason given was that she was spoiling a workers‘ daughter. Thanks to a medical report and an appeal, she eventually graduated from grammar school and medical faculty in Pilsen. She worked in Písek, Milevsko and as an outpatient doctor in the surrounding villages. Later she also worked in an alcohol counselling centre. In the 1960s, State Security investigated her and pressured her to cooperate. In 1963 she married Miroslav Jaroš, a pharmacist, and they had a son. Due to the lack of flats, the young family lived separately, the son initially with his grandparents in Tábor, the newlyweds in the premises of the hospital. In 1968, she joined the Club of Committed Non-Partisans (KAN). During the normalisation period, she was not allowed to obtain a second attestation for political reasons. In November 1989 she went to Prague to demonstrate. As a believer, she was a member of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. After 1989 she worked as a doctor in Písek. She retired in 2007. In 2025 she lived in Písek.
