A Soviet patrol stopped them and threatened to shoot them
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Blanka Göthová was born on April 10, 1945 in Luka nad Jihlavou into the Catholic family of Ludmila and Karel Cila. Her birth was accompanied by dramatic events when on the same day partisans blew up a railway bridge near nearby Helenín, over which a German military transport was passing. After graduating from an eight-year school, she entered the Secondary General Education School in Jihlava in 1959. After her successful graduation she wanted to study law, but was not admitted. She therefore went on to library school in Brno, after which she started working at the District Cultural Centre in Jihlava. After the August 1968 occupation, she participated in the distribution of anti-occupation leaflets. During one of her trips, she and her colleagues were stopped by a Soviet patrol, which threatened to shoot them. After the onset of normalisation, she underwent political checks and was charged with checking municipal chronicles for critical references to the events of August 1968. She married in 1969 and went on maternity leave two years later. She did not return to her original job and took a job as a registrar in Luka nad Jihlavou, where she worked for many years. In her spare time she was actively involved in the activities of the local amateur theatre association. In 2025 Blanka Göthová lived in Luka nad Jihlavou.
