Knock six times yourself, just cry with the Gestapo
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Antonín Růžička was born on 25 January 1936 in Rosice near Brno into a patriotic family. The Růžička family lived together in a large house until 1938, when they had to separate because of their connection to the person under surveillance. His father Jan Růžička, together with Antonín’s half-brother Jan Růžička, moved to nearby Ivančice. Antonín Růžička stayed with his mother Maria Růžičková in Rosice. In 1945 he experienced an air raid on a passenger train coming to Rosice. After the war, in 1946, he joined the school choir led by the patriot Josef Grohs. In 1951, he entered the Secondary Vocational School of Metalwork in Brno and trained as a radio mechanic. After school, he started working as a radiomechanic in the Brno Kovopodnik. Later he moved to the Brno Municipal Telecommunications Administration (then called the Administration of Communications), where he worked until his retirement. In August 1968 he worked at the Brno telephone exchange for a week without stopping. During the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops he was under great pressure and armed surveillance. In the 1970s he sued the Communists for his family land, which they wanted to expropriate. In 2025, Antonín Růžička was living in Rosice.
