I got across the stream and ran. But they were hiding somewhere - two border guards with a dog
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Radomír Šebek was born on 20 July 1957 in Brno. Both parents - Anna and Antonín Šebek - worked in Adamovské Engineering Works. He grew up with his brother Antonín, five years older, in the village of Habrůvka (his mother’s birthplace) in the Blansko region. In the first half of the 1970s, he trained as an auto mechanic at the Czechoslovak State Automobile Transport (ČSAD) Blansko and worked at the company for the following year. He then decided to become a professional soldier and from 1975 to 1977 he attended a two-year officer’s school in Martin, Slovakia. From August 1977 he served in the rank of second lieutenant as commander of the engineer company in Sereď. Shortly afterwards, in December 1977, he decided to emigrate illegally across the Czechoslovak western border. He was detained by border guards while attempting to escape and spent the next five years in the infamous Minkovice camp. After his release from prison, he worked on a number of manual job positions. At the time of the interview for Memory of Nations in 2025, he was living in Habrůvka.
