Faith is the alpha and omega of my life
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Jiří Nosek was born on 1 December, 1933 in Urbanov in Vysočina in a religious family. He had six siblings and his father was a musician playing organs in the church. The family owned a small farm. He survived was in Urbanov, where the local school was instead used by Hitlerjugend. He went to the second grade of basic school in Telč; he witnessed soldiers moving out of the territory at the end of war. Later Jiří Nosek successfully passed entrance exams to gymnasium, but due to catholic religion of his family had to study social and health school. Due to the same reasons he was sent to the serve obligatory military service at the Auxiliary technical battalions (PTP) in 1953. For his medical education he could teach the first aid there; due to the events in Hungary and emergency service at the border he spent three years. After returning home he was placed in the State psychiatric hospital in Jihlava, where he met his future wife, who worked as an emergency nurse there. He was sentenced to prison for seven months for organising events with his catholic friends; he was banned to return to Jihlava and went to Ostrava with his wife to work in the mines, but later he taught in a school training centre. When they were finally allowed to come back to Jihlava, Jiří Nosek returned also to the psychiatry job, which he did until retirement.
