“They took everything and moved it to another store, where they still allowed both of them [parents] to sell there. That was back in 1948. And in 1952 he (the father) was taken away in February because... because I don't know why.“
„In the sixth grade, when we came to the sixth grade, [the teacher] asked where the parents were, what they were doing, how many siblings we had. I had to get up and say: 'Dad is locked up in prison.' Back then there was no 'execution of punishment' or anything, just dad was locked up. He (the teacher) stayed completely calm without saying anything.“
"At the end of the war, when they were chasing the Germans out and the Russians were coming, in Malín, I don't know why, I still haven't found out, they came to a house, took out all the gentlemen there, the men, and shot them. They have a grave in Malín, there were about nine of them."
Jana Mundilová was born on October 26, 1942. She spent her childhood in Malín near Kutná Hora. Her father Jan Havelka owned a general store. After the communist coup in 1948, the family lost their business. In 1952, the father was arrested and convicted in a sham trial. After August 21, 1968, Jana refused the opportunity to emigrate. She experienced the Velvet Revolution in Prague. She died on February 18, 2021.
