As children we suddenly started to train escaping to the cellar as anti-air raid shelter and putting on gas masks
Jiří Hemzal was born on June 23, 1930 in Brno-Žabovřesky, where he graduated from the general school, and then he was trained in business. During the war he experienced a heavy bombing, and hiding in anti-aircraft shelters became a common matter. During the times of Heydrich´s rule he was not allowed to go out in the evening and the children could only go back from school in pairs. He was a member of Sokol and later of the Youth Union. From the mid-1950s he worked at the tractor plant until his retirement.