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Zdenka Cerhová, née Dobrovolná, was born on July 2, 1943 in Kamenice near Jihlava. Immediately after the end of the war, she moved with her parents to the small village of Cerekvička, to a house after the Germans, but her grandmother took her away from there before long. She never returned to her parents and grew up with her grandparents. Although she wanted to continue her studies after elementary school, her grandmother did not allow her to do so, so from the age of fourteen she worked on a state farm and later learned to be a machine stitcher. In 1963, she got married and gradually had four children. Her husband was a member of the Communist Party, and because of this they had to face various threats, especially in 1968. Later, the children persuaded her to lead the local pioneer section, and under the pressure of a Jihlava functionary, she joined the Communist Party. After the death of her first husband, she remarried and started a poultry business after 1989. In 2022, she lived in Sovenice in Central Bohemia.
