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Blažena Baborová (* 1935)

Being a western resistance fighter, Dad just couldn’t stomach the Communists winning here

  • born 7 February 1935 near Nitra, Slovakia

  • her father Jan Anděl fought on the West Front during WW2, was a hotel administrator in Františkovy Lázně after the war

  • after February 1948 her father guided people over the border into Germany

  • 11 April 1948, while attempting to cross the border with his family and other people, Jan Anděl was shot by a policeman

  • the witness learnt to be a clockmaker

  • worked at a jeweller’s in Aš and Cheb, in the Coal Depot in Cheb, later as an accountant at the Balneo spa centre in Františkovy Lázně

  • in retirement since 1990

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