After an air raid, she saw houses cut in half. A bomb hung off the ceiling like a sparkler.
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Jitka Jágrová, née Sedláčková, was born on the 7th of November in 1939 in Prague. She grew up in the Vinohrady neighbourhood where she witnessed the destructive air raids of the Allied forces in February 1945. This was the reason why she and her parents moved to her uncle’s to Beroun where she experienced further air raids at the very end of the war. Then, they lived at a farm in Koněprusy for a short time and the Vlasov army soldiers were staying there as well. Jitka’s father worked in an insurance company in Prague as a clerk and when the insurance companies were nationalised and closed down at the beginning of 1949, the family moved to Liberec and their standard of living plummeted. Jitka attended secondary school and university in Liberec. With her first husband, they worked in the TOS foundry in Kuřim but when their first child was born, they moved back to Liberec. During the invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies in 1968, she and her husband were in France. She worked at the Liberec univrsity at the department of mechanics, strength and elasticity under, among others, Professor Cyril Höschl [note: not the same person as the well-known professor of psychiatry of the same name]. After the velvet revolution, she and her second husband, Jaroslav Jágr, they were among those who established the Civic Forum. She worked at the university for almost half of a century. In 2022, she and her husband lived in Liberec.
