Only they resisted
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Anna Urbášková was born on September 2, 1932 in Dubick, Mohelnice as the younger of two sisters to Jan and Albína Urbášek. She grew up in a Czech farming family with a farm of seven hectares, where she worked hard from childhood. After the Munich Agreement, Dubicko became part of the Reich County Sudetenland and the village underwent Germanization. The war years affected the whole family. Anna witnessed the brutal attack on local conscripts in Zábřeh in 1939 and the mysterious death of her favourite teacher Adolf Berka. Her father Jan secretly supported the partisans and took care of the farm of his cousin Karel Urbášek, imprisoned for resistance activities. In May 1945, Anna lived through the execution of five local men by German soldiers in Stavenice. After her father‘s death in 1951, she managed the farm with her sick mother and sister Frantiska. She graduated from an agricultural school, but the family refused to join a collective farm (JZD). For this they faced severe repression - confiscation of the best fields and constant pressure. They were the last private farmers in the village and lasted until the 1970s. From 1974 until her retirement in 1991, Anna Urbášková worked in the paper mill in Lukavice. She never married - after her father‘s death she had no dowry. She welcomed the Velvet Revolution with enthusiasm. At the time of filming in 2025, she was still living in her family home in Dubicko.
