Idyll ended on the 15th of March 1939
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Václav Jiterský was born on the 11th of December 1927 in Prague. The family was evicted from the company flat of the Supreme Administrative Court in Mariánské hradby Street to Vyšehradská Street, after the occupation of Prague by German occupants on the 15th of March 1939. He studied State reform real grammar school in Velvarská Street in Prague 6 and Smíchov secondary technical school in Preslova Street. He witnessed the Nazi armed raid on Czechoslovak parachutes hiding in the crypt of the Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral on the 18th of June 1942. Towards the end of the war, the students were called to dig trenches because of the approaching front; he worked near Suchdol upon Odra in northern Moravia. He ran away from the forced labours with his friend Vlastík Horáček. His father was shortly imprisoned by Gestapo for alleged spreading of anti-German leaflets in spring 1945. Václav participated in fights during Prague uprising, he sniped a German garrison in Břevnov monastery with a machine gun and he helped to escort it from Prague to Hostivice. His friend Vlastík Horáček died during the uprising and so did some of his fellow fighters. Václav Jiterský died in 2016.
