Věra Veselá

* 1926

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They handed out Communist Party membership forms to everyone

Věra Veselá in the 1940s
Věra Veselá in the 1940s
photo: witness archive

Věra Veselá was born on January 18, 1926, in Chotčiny. Her father fought in World War I, where he was wounded and four of his brothers were killed. During World War II, she trained as a saleswoman and, after the expulsion of the Germans, she moved to Karlovy Vary as part of a call to settle the borderlands. There, in 1948, she was forced to join the Communist Party, but she refused. In the mid-1950s, she moved to Žirovnice to be with her husband, who worked in the Jáchymov mines in the 1950s. She still lives in Žirovnice (2024) as the oldest citizen of the village.