On the twenty-first of August, I thought there was a play on the radio
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Emília Kreuzerová, née Figurová, was born on 1 April 1947 in the village of Dvorníky in the Trnava region of western Slovakia. She grew up in a large family, with her parents running a small farm. As there were not many jobs to choose from in Slovakia, the witness, together with her older sister, went to Bohemia. They found jobs in a textile factory in Železný Brod, where they both worked for three years. The older sister eventually returned to Slovakia, but Emília Kreuzerová found a man in Bohemia, whom she married in 1966. They began working for the Škoda Plzeň plant, where they both experienced the occupation by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968. In 1969, their twin sons Jaroslav and Miloslav were born. They lived a peaceful life in the Pilsen region. She was not involved in political events. She never permanently returned to her native Slovakia, but she was not happy about the division of the country in 1993. In 2024 she was living in Předslav.
