Daddy was arrested by both the Nazis and the Communists
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Zdeňka Čevonková was born on 4 September 1936 in Staré Město u Uherského Hradiště. Her father Jaroslav Januška worked as a butcher, her mother Štěpánka helped him with his trade. The witness had an older brother Jaroslav. During the war her father had to supply meat to German soldiers. The witness lived with her aunt Irena Jelínková, where she experienced a Gestapo search. Her father Jaroslav Januška was in prison during the war. First he was in the Kounic dormitories in Brno and then in Dachau. He returned from the camp, but the Communists arrested him again after 1948. Zdeňka Čevonková graduated from a nine-year primary school. From 1951 she worked as a telephone operator at the post office in Staré Město. She married a professional soldier, Milan Čevonka, and moved with him to Bratislava. She returned to her native region after her husband’s death. In 2025 she lived in Uherské Hradiště.
