The regime tightened its grip once again, yet in August 1969, she distributed protest leaflets
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Růžena Haidlová, née Sedláčková, was born on 27 August 1938 in Bukovany near Týnec nad Sázavou. Her father Václav Sedláček worked in the JAWA company and the family lived in one of the houses in the factory colony. During the Second World War it was strictly guarded by German soldiers. In 1945, the Sedláček family moved to Jiříkov in North Bohemia, where the company had sent their father to work. For some time they lived in the same house with a German family that was to be evicted. During the communist currency reform in 1953, the Sedláček family lost a considerable part of their savings. After that, the communists made it impossible for the witness to study education. She graduated from the school of economics in Česká Lípa and then worked as an accountant in various companies in the Šluknov region. She disagreed with the political development after the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops and in 1969 she distributed leaflets in the Totex company encouraging protest action. Together with two colleagues, she was investigated by the communists and sentenced to a suspended sentence. In 1988 she was widowed and moved out of Jiříkov, and remarried a few years later. She devoted her life to music and singing. In her old age she moved to Ostašov to stay at her daughter, where she was actively involved in civic life. She was still living there in 2025.
