She disagreed with the occupation, the communists fired her from her job during the political screening process
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Alena Růžičková was born on 3 October 1929 in Jihlava to parents František and Kristýna Hrůza. She grew up in Břeclav, where her father served in the Financial Guard. After the Munich Agreement, the family had to move out of the border region. She lived through the Second World War in Jihlava. Her cousin Oldřich Novák died during the liberation of the town by the Red Army. After the communists came to power, Alena Růžičková was investigated and detained, but eventually released. In the 1960s she moved to Karlovy Vary, worked in the health service and as a head nurse in an orphanage. After August 1968, her brother Lubomír Hrůza, who was a successful theatre set designer at home and abroad, emigrated. During the screening process, she refused to agree to the occupation by Warsaw Pact troops and lost her job. In the 1970s, she married Kamil Růžička, who was active in the Boy Scout resistance during the war and after 1948 also fought against the Communists by distributing leaflets. He spent three years in the Eliáš camp in Jáchymov. The Růžička couple became the leading figures of the Karlovy Vary Boy Scouts during the Third Restoration. In 2025 Alena Růžičková lived in Karlovy Vary.
