It’s good to realize that you don’t have to have everything
Jaroslav Vávra was born on February 7, 1933 in Louny, but lived his whole life in Lenešice, where his parents had a small farm. After the occupation of the Sudetenland by the German Empire, Lenešice found itself on the border of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and the Vávras rented one room in their house to a teacher who was forced to flee from the Sudetenland. In April 1945, a death march passed through Lenešice. The Vávras lived right next to the cemetery, and Jaroslav Vávra watched the burial of the shot prisoners. He was also a witness to raids by depth divers and the liberation of Lenešice by the Red Army. He went to Sokol from the first grade, and after the war to the renewed Junák. After the municipal school, he completed a one-year learning course and learned to be a carpenter. In 1953, he joined the war in Vysoké Mýto in the anti-aircraft artillery. He served first in the kitchen and later transferred to the railway army, where he completed a diving course. He laid cables on newly built dams or helped remove underwater obstacles. After the war, he started working for a geological survey, after the Velvet Revolution, he worked in carpentry. He was a member of the tourist section in Louny for several decades. In 2022 he lived in Lenešice.