In the Sudeten region
Kamila Kouřilová, her maiden name Mádrová, was born on 19 February 1936 in the village of Mrsklesy near Olomouc. In her hometown at that time lived mostly the residents of German nationality (85 %). Most of the Czechs then left the village in 1938, shortly after the so-called Munich Agreement, when Mrsklesy became part of Nazi Germany. Although the Mádrová family remained, they had to resist national oppression because of Czech nationality. The authorities closed the inn and sent the children to a German school. Father Josef Madr, a butcher by profession, smuggled meat across the nearby Protectorate borders, which he also supplied to the partisans. Yet he was detained after the war on suspicion of cooperation with the Nazis, but released shortly thereafter. Later, his father refused to join the newly formed single agricultural cooperative (JZD), and therefore at the age of fifty-five sent to the auxiliary technical battalions (PTP) for two years in 1950. The family was also threatened to move out, so under pressure the father became a member of the cooperative. The political burden also remained on the children, and they all had difficulty in enrolling to schools. Kamile was only allowed the turning apprenticeship field. In fact, from the end of elementary school to retirement in 1991 (42 years), she worked as a lathe operator in Moravia in the Moravské Údolí. In 2018 she lived in Moravské Údolí.
