We worked and survived everything
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Jana Vrzalová was born on 27 February 1928 in Pohořelice near Napajedla. Her father Jan Plachý, a former legionnaire, was a butcher, but that would not have been enough to support the family in the small village. Besides, her parents had a small farm and a rented pub. As a child, the witness helped in the butcher’s shop, in the looking after animals and in the household. In her native village she lived through the World War II, when the nearby Staré Město u Uherského Hradiště was bombed, an American bomber was shot down near Napajedla and German soldiers fought with partisans. In the basement of the pub, the Germans had all the men from Pohořelice, including the father and brother of the witness, gathered during the liberation fighting. After February 1948, agriculture was collectivised and nationalised by the communist regime, when her father’s trade was closed down and his machinery confiscated. In 1949 she married Miroslav Vrzala. She worked for many years as a cook in a kindergarten and at the post office in Napajedla. In 2025 she was still living in Pohořelice.
