Jiřina Mrázová

* 1932

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Coal took away their farmhouse with bakery, fields and home. They also moved the family grave

Jiřina Mrázová around 1949
Jiřina Mrázová around 1949
photo: archiv pamětnice

Jiřina Mrázová, née Zárubová, was born on March 25, 1932 in Konobržy near Most. During the First Republic, she still lived with her parents in Prague and Souš. They spent the war period in Rozdělov near Kladno. Her father was fully deployed in Bottrop and Remscheid in Germany in 1943. After 1945, they returned to Most, where their parents ran a store on III. square. With the advent of communism and the development of mining activities, the family lost the farm and bakery in Souš as well as the house with a shop in the old Most due to mining and construction. In 1951, the witness married Josef Mráz, a metallurgical engineer. They had two daughters together. They lived in Prague from 1965, after the invasion in 1968, the husband was expelled from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) because he refused to give his consent to the entry of Warsaw Pact troops. Jiřina Mrázová worked as a secretary. For twenty years, she also helped take care of her grandson Tomáš, who was born with a disability. In 2023, she lived in Prague.