Only when I changed my name could I start living
Olga Petříková, née Brázdilová, was born in 1937 in Ostrava. Father František Brázdil, Ensign of the SNB, was arrested in 1949 and then in 1950, in a fabricated trial, sentenced to life imprisonment for high treason. Before his arrest, he was in contact with Jan Buchal, one of those executed during the trial of Milada Horáková. The family lost their property after his father‘s conviction. František Brázdil was released on the basis of Antonín Novotný‘s amnesty in 1960, after eleven years in prison. After the Velvet Revolution, the survivors were financially compensated, but František Brázdil died in 1988. Olga Petříková dedicated her professional life to teaching and led music education classes at primary school