The boilerman threw a newspaper at us and we read in the newspaper that we were occupied

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Alena Koňáková, née Zachariášová, was born on August 26, 1944 in Havlíčkův Brod. She started school there and after the fifth grade the family moved to a secluded place near Rakovník, where her father got a job on a state farm. After the eleventh grade she tried unsuccessfully to get into medical school. She moved to Most, where she started working as a bank clerk. After a year, she entered the Faculty of Education and after graduating she got a teaching position in Příčina in Rakovník. She went on to teach in Čistá, Lišany and from 1968 in Mutějovice, where she worked until her retirement in 2002. In 1989 she travelled to the World Youth Festival in North Korea. In 2024 she lived in Lužná.