Tanks are already at Jihlava, don’t go out

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Jaromíra Jirků was born on September 4, 1953 in Pelhřimov. She remembers the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968, when soldiers destroyed anti-occupation signs on the fence adjacent to their house. In January 1969, she took part in the commemoration of Jan Palach on Pelhřimov Square. She graduated from the Faculty of Education at Charles University and in 1976 she started teaching at the school in Božejov. After ten years she got a job in Pelhřimov. She married and has two sons. In 2024 she lived in Pelhřimov and with her husband she devoted herself to the history of the town.