Ludmila Müllerová

* 1943

  • "Dad had the cross erected as thanks for the fact that no one got hurt during the war, not just in our house but also in Bohdalec. See, it was very, very ugly. When the revolution came, they built a barricade here below Bohdalec. It was not built between two objects; it was just on the road. They like no weapons, maybe a rifle and a revolver; they didn't get any. Then at night, dad came to say goodbye to mum, and he woke up the older kids and gave them a kiss and a cross; he had to go back to that barricade. As the Germans went to Spořilov, they sent a patrol on a motorcycle and saw the barricade. Then they didn't go through us, but went through Kačerov. In Spořilov, they took some men and had them march in front of the tanks so that our men wouldn't shoot at them."

  • "Mum then went to the prosecutor. Where did she find the courage...? She said everything had been confiscated. She had three boys and they shared different clothes. Especially the two older ones shared stuff with dad. He acknowledged it and the confiscated stuff was graciously returned. He then complimented my mum saying, "Mrs. Janoušková, I respect how you manage six children. My wife can't wait for me to get home from work to sort out our two children.'"

  • "I remember my mum, my brother a me going to Radost before I went to school. It was some kind of charity holiday with meals; it was a simple facility. Dad came to see us in the church in Vimperk. He actually came to say goodbye to us and to mum. He was waiting... they arrested Cardinal Beran and he was expecting to get arrested too. He had worked with Archbishop Beran on some issues and advised him. Even though he was a village boy, he was very clever, and since he was in the money business... well I don't know what they consulted about but I know he expected to get arrested."

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You are scared when your daddy is locked up.

Ludmila Müllerová, née Janoušková
Ludmila Müllerová, née Janoušková
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Ludmila Müllerová, née Janoušková, was born in Prague on 5 June 1943 into a Roman Catholic family active in public and church life. The communist regime persecuted the family after February 1948. The witness’s older brother Jan was convicted in 1953, her mother in the spring of 1954 (amnestied a month later), and her father in the autumn of 1954, sentenced to ten years in prison for treason. When she was banned from studying over an unfavourable cadre profile, she got a gardener training and worked as a vocational training master at a gardening school in Malešice. During the political thaw in the late 1960s, she led a Girl Scout troop with the Vršovice parish. She married and started a family with Miloslav Müller in 1971. In the years to come, she worked as a caregiver in a social care institute and then as an assistant cook in a preschool. In 2025 she lived with her family in Prague, Bohdalec.