Dad was sentenced to life in prison. I became a criminal‘s daughter
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Libuše Jůzová was born on 30 March 1949. She lived with her parents in the small village of Jiříkov in the Děčín region, where her father, Petr Kouba, worked as a member of the National Security Corps. During the war, her mother Libuše Hýblová cooperated with Major Kanishchev‘s partisan brigade. The family‘s life changed in May 1950, when State Security came for her father. Petr Kouba received a life sentence in the monster trial against Dr. Edvard Beneš‘s resistance group. Libuše Jůzová knew her father only from visits to prison. At school, as the daughter of a political prisoner, she was bullied not only by her classmates but also by her teachers. In 1964, she was admitted to the grammar school in Rumburk. Even there, they did not forget to remind her of the brand that marked after her father‘s arrest. After her first year, due to a few events, she quit her studies and started working. During her employment she finished a two-year school of economics. In the early 1970s she moved with her parents to Hradec Králové, where she met her future husband. She married in 1976, and she and her husband raised two children. During the normalization she tried not to stand out, she was worried not only about her children but also about her aging parents. In the early 1990s, she found a new family in the Confederation of Political Prisoners, where she later worked as treasurer. In 2023, Libuše Jůzová was living in Hradec Králové.
