The people around were amazing, except for the dossier people who ruined our lives
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Svatava Dušková was born on April 26, 1943 in Pilsen. Her mother Růžena Mádrová and her father Miloš Mádr worked as teachers of the Czech language and physical education. She grew up with her older brother Miloš in a pleasant home environment. Her carefree childhood ended in December 1951, when her father Miloš Mádr was detained directly at work and subsequently sentenced in a fabricated trial to twelve years in prison for treason. Her mother lost her job and the apartment, and the family lived in modest conditions in a shared household with their grandparents. Due to the poor dossier profile, the witness was unable to attend an industrial high school and so she trained to be a miller. In the third year of her studies, she started practical training at the steam mill in Pilsen, in Prokopova Street. The witness continued to dream about distance learning, which was promised to her by the relevant authorities under the condition that she would establish the Czechoslovak Youth Union at her workplace. Due to the fact that she fulfilled the condition, had excellent grades and was praised at work, she entered the industrial school in Pardubice remotely. Her father Miloš Mádr was released on amnesty in 1960. The witness got married and lived in Prague, where she spent 24 years of her life. She lived through the events in Prague in August 1968. She and her husband had two children, but the marriage ended in divorce, after which she returned to Pilsen to live with her family. According to her, she lived the most beautiful part of her life in Pilsen by guiding in the Ethnographic Museum of the Pilsen Region. In 2021 she lived in Pilsen.
