She hid Jindra Tomeš for half a year after he escaped from court and later fled to the West
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Alena Bytomská, née Kumprechtová, was born on March 20, 1953 in Prague into a family of architects, her mother worked at the Meteorological Institute. After high school, she unsuccessfully applied for journalism twice. She started studying theology at the Theological Faculty in Prague, but did not finish it. After the birth of her son Jakub in 1974, she worked as a receptionist in a hotel in Malá Strana. Later she worked as a postwoman. She came to the people around Charter 77 through her second husband Martin Palouš. French women Carole Paris and Marianne Cannavagio used to come to her flat in Košíří to bring literature and money from the Parisian Svědectví to Prague. From December 1981 to June 1982, she hid Jindra Tomeš, who had fled the court, in her apartment. She was arrested and interrogated several times, and the police threatened to take away her son Jakub and place him in an orphanage. After 1989, she worked as an editor in youth magazines, and later found a job at the Office for Personal Data Protection. She received an award as a participant in the anti-communist resistance.
