Whatever happened, I was always satisfied and optimistic
Hana Lukáčová, née Válková, was born in 1941 in Nová Paka. The whole family worked in a company making wooden toys founded by witness´ grandfather. During war the parents were hiding a refugee prisoner from the South African Republic. Mainly due to stories of her mother she remembers the process with Vladimír Cerman, who was sentenced to death in a staged process; court hearing was broadcasted by the municipal radio. Hana Lukáčová studied the eleven-grade school, but didn‘t get a required recommendation to study the high school and had to go to the papermaking cram school in Hostinný. After graduation she worked as a laboratory in current papermaking factory. She met her future husband there and left with him to papermaking factory in Česká Kamenice, where she was placed. The witness worked as an accountant and later as a technologist and a head of the laboratory. At the end of 1989 she founded the Civic Forum, in 1990 was elected the head of the national committee and soon after that the major; she chaired the office until 1998. She was a regional representative for another twelve years, a member of the regional committee and the head of the committee for education, youth and sports.
