Instead of toys, I had work to do
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Miroslav Vošvrda was born on 9 December 1938 in Jičín. His family ran the U Janďourků pub since the 1920s. Miroslav Vošvrda remembers well the war years during which he had to help his parents in their business. After the communists seized power, the Vošvrda family fell on hard times. The year 1953 was particularly difficult, when the family pub was confiscated and then it burned down. In the same year, Miroslav Vošvrda entered an apprenticeship in Jičíněves, where he trained to become a metalworker. Shortly afterwards, he enlisted for two years of compulsory military service in Topoľčany, Slovakia. During his professional life he changed many jobs. He spent the year 1968 as an employee of Liaz in its operation branch in Valdice Prison. He married twice and raised three children. At the time of recording for Memory of the Nation he was living, as he had done all his life, in Jinolice.
