Thanks to my mother‘s courage, my father was not taken away
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Jiřina Kudličková, née Poláčková, was born on April 11, 1950 in Brno. She spent her childhood with her parents and older sister in the village of Mokrá-Horákov near Brno. Her grandfather fought in the First World War, from which he returned with severe injuries and terrible memories. Later he had to be hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital, where he also died. Jiřina Kudličková‘s family owned a small farm, which was nationalized in the 1950s. When they wanted to take her father to the National Committee for questioning, her mother stood in front of the investigators‘ car with her two daughters and prevented them from leaving. In the end, my father had to join the unified agricultural cooperative anyway. In 1968 Jiřina Kudličková graduated from high school. She lived through the August invasion worrying about her beloved, who was then in the army. A year later, in August 1969, she took part in a demonstration on the anniversary of the occupation, which was violently dispersed. Later, she worked in a kindergarten and was also the leader of the pioneer group at the primary school in the village of Mokrá-Horákov and later as the leader of the after-school club there. In 2024, Jiřina Kudličková lived in Brno-Líšno.
