Already as a child she saw with her own eyes the execution and transportation of the dead
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Anděla Plačková was born on 8 May 1929 in Ostrava to Mr. and Mrs. Neulinger, a police officer Petr and his wife Anděla. The family moved to Znojmo, which was in the Sudetenland and which they left in 1938 despite their German roots. The Neulingers then lived in Bánov and Brno, where the young Anděla witnessed an execution in Kaunic‘s Hall of Residence. The family survived the war relatively peacefully until liberation, during which her father was imprisoned and Anděla and her mother hid from Soviet soldiers. Anděla graduated from the pedagogical school and became a teacher. In the 1960s, she then joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia when she wanted to become a school principal. She was not very interested in politics, but by the nature of her work she was, for example, a member of the commission and a witness in the nationalisation of the peasants’ property. She raised two children with her husband Jaromír Plaček, whom she married in 1951. She still lives in Zlín.
