Political events didn’t matter to me. I cared about work and family...
Venuše Koblasová, née Černá, was born on 16th July, 1940 in a village of Markvarec in a region Louny. The family Černý lived in a village for generations. Her mother Anna returned to her native village following the death of her husband and tried to make living for her and children working for a farmer Lorenc. He also farmer the family croft and provided food for the family even at times of the biggest war poverty. Yet he didn‘t live to see the end of war; he was arrested during house search and executed in Pankrác. Even the Černý family had a house search. Yet Venuše Koblasová remembers mainly an aircraft being shot down, which bombed Litvínov and crashed down near Markvarec. Her uncle served forced labour. His escaping from the Reich at the end of war endangered the whole family, but then May 1945 came and rescue too. The witness attended elementary school in Hřivice and then secondary school in Louny. Following WW2 the family began farming a little and in 1950 moved to Chomutov, where Venuše Koblasová after working in a screw factory and in a local shop eventually settled down in the field of geodesy. With her husband Josef raised five children. She lived most of her work and private life in Chomutov. She actively participated in a number of local urban changes.