Children, you don’t know how good a father you had
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Anna Fabiánová, née Stočková, was born on 14 November 1939 in the village of Svoboda in Štěpánkovice in the Hlučín region. Her father František Stoček was a bricklayer and in 1940 he had to enlist in the German army. He died in Russia, but the family did not receive news of his death until around 1950. In January 1945, Anna Fabiánová saw German soldiers leading a crowd of prisoners through the village. It was probably the so-called death march from the Auschwitz concentration camp to Opava. She survived the bombing in the house that was hit. Immediately after the war she witnessed how the communists gradually began to come to power. She remembers the hard work of women in private and collectivized agriculture. After completing municipal school, she could not go to any secondary school. In 1962 she married Alfred Fabián, a joiner in Oldřišov. She raised two children and worked in the poultry farm of the Zempro company. In November 1989 she attended the canonization of Agnes of Bohemia in Rome. In 2025 she was living in Oldřišov.
