I used to wave at the strafers
Stáhnout obrázek
Věra Štemproková was born on 21 January 1934 in Klecany. Her mother Marie Fialová was a housewife all her life, her father Josef Fiala worked as a car mechanic. Her grandfather Karel Smolík fought in the First World War and was the mayor of Klecany between 1933 and 1942. She started going to school in 1940, four years later the school was occupied by the Germans. At that time she went to the local parish to do her homework. After graduating from elementary school, she started her first job at the State Farm. She then did office work all her life, and for the last thirty years she worked at the Research Institute of Nuclear Instrumentation. In 1955 she married Oldřich Štemprok, a Boy scout, and in the 1960s she was briefly involved in the scouting movement, organising scout camps with her husband. She never joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), and her children were not in Pionýr or the Socialist Youth Union (SSM). After 1989, her family became involved in the Scout movement again. In 2025 she lived in Klecany.
