Many Germans were decent people. No one reported that we were listening to London
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Věra Chudobová was born on May 26, 1935, in Brno to the family of sales representative Vojtěch Vacek and his wife Marie, who made a living sewing hats. Věra Chudobová grew up in Brno’s Veveří neighborhood in a house with German neighbors, with whom the family never had any problems. During the war, they listened to broadcasts from London and no one ever reported them. At the end of the war, the witness experienced frequent bombing, and her family moved out of Brno for a short time because of it. After the war, they returned to their apartment and witnessed the expulsion of the Germans. Věra Chudobová attended elementary and middle school in Brno. She then graduated from the Business Academy in Kolín and began working as a financial accountant at the Prague-based company Energoinvest. She married in 1955 and had two daughters. The Chudoba family was abroad at the time of the invasion by Warsaw Pact troops and did not return to Czechoslovakia until October 1968. Part of their family lived in exile, which is why the witness’s daughters had problems getting into secondary school. No one in the family was a member of the Communist Party. In 2024, Věra Chudobová was living in Týnec nad Labem.
