Anna Fidlerová (1919 - 2016)

Don’t take yourself too seriously

Anna Fidlerová, née Lhotáková, was born in 1919 in the village of Hospozín in central Bohemia. Her grandfather introduced her to politics and taking an interest in public matters. Her dream was to become a journalist. She spent her youth and student days in Prague. She was active in a group of young people interested in culture, called Young Culture. There she met with people such as Adolf Hoffmeister and Julius Fučík. Young Culture also gave her a loved one - a young Jewish man. Their relationship was crushed by his being transported to Auschwitz, where he died. In the meantime Anna worked as a secretary to Hugo Vavřečka, the grandfather of Václav Havel. She experienced the terror that gripped Prague after the successful assassination of Reinhard Heidrich, but also the joyful days of the city's liberation. The persecution of her various loved ones showed her how cruel the Communist regime could be, even to its own people. She experienced the relaxed atmosphere of spring 1968 and the s ... 

Working for Hugo Vavřečka and a meeting with two-year-old Václav Havel