Thanks to my parents, I was safe
Pavla Hájková, née Kochmanová, was born on March 30, 1938 in Prague. She lived with her parents and younger brother in Libeň, not far from the street where Jindřiška Nováková lived, who helped cover up traces of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. Even the Kochmans did not escape home searches after Heydrich‘s death. After the raids, which also destroyed the Emmaus monastery, the parents decided to move to a cottage in Štěchovice. Near the cottage was the Hradištko camp for prisoners of war - her mother and others cooked simple meals for them for lunch. Her parents learned about the Prague Uprising from a so-called krystalka, a primitive radio receiver. She returned to Prague with her family in August 1945.