I remember that feeling of horror, anger, hopelessness. Something you don’t even want to believe that is happening, and that signals that bad times are coming.
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Miluše Prokůpková was born on June 15, 1947 in Teplice. Her mother was a business assistant, and her father finished his studies as an engineer at Bata shoes factory. Both of her parents had different places of birth, but after the war they moved to Teplice, where there was enough work - her father managed glass kilns in Podkrušnohoří. Miluše spent her childhood in Teplice, going to Káranice for the holidays with her grandfather. She graduated from the Faculty of Education in Ústí nad Labem, majoring in biology and chemistry, and worked in primary schools all her life. In 1975, she got married and together with their husband, due to the bad air in Teplice, after the birth of their second daughter, they decided to move to the region of Kutná Hora in 1979, where they lived at the Rákosov mill. Today she lives in Štipoklasy with her husband, she takes care of the garden and her six grandchildren. The interview with was recorded by her grandson Šimon as part of the Stories of the 20th Century competition.
