No one ever explained why it happened to be us
Zdeňka Králová, née Petržílková, was born on 26 April 1935 in Prague-Vysočany. In 1937 she mover with her parents into a small flat in Úsobská Street in Prague-Pankrác. During World War II members of the SS occupied the school pavilions at the other end of the garden. At the end of the war, on 6 May 1945, SS units broke into their house and murdered their neighbours, who were hiding in the cellar. Zdeňka and her parents were only saved by chance. After a while they fled the house and hid in a garden shed. A total of 51 people were murdered in Úsobská Street. After graduating from secondary school, Zdeňka found an office job at a gardening centre. She married and moved away. She does not visit the streets where she experienced the massacre.