During the war there was poverty and sorrow in Wallachia
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Vlasta Bérešová was born on 23 September 1937 in the village of Lačnov in Wallachia. Five years later, they moved to nearby Tichov, where she began attending primary school. During the war, fighting between partisans and Nazis took place in Wallachia, and her father was taken to Vsetín by the Gestapo, where he was interrogated for life. In 1945 their house in Tichov burned down and they moved to Bukovice in the Šumperk region. There she finished primary school and went to apprentice as a machine locksmith. But soon she had to start working to help her mother. Daddy, who was ill, died in 1953. She worked at the spa in Velké Losiny. In 1958 she took up parachuting. She jumped for the first time in 1959 and has 223 jumps to her credit and, among other achievements, the Czechoslovak record in triple jump from 1963. Because of parachuting she moved from the Šumperk region to Varnsdorf. She worked as an educator in Elite Varnsdorf, where she led a parachuting club. She moved several more times, to Krásná Lípa and Stebno and eventually she settled in Ústí nad Labem. In 1964, her son was born and due to health complications she had to give up parachuting and devoted herself to household. In 2024 Vlasta Bérešová was living in Ústí nad Labem.
