My brother was born in a crashed ambulance during the bombing of the Škoda factory
Stáhnout obrázek
Jarmila Skuhrová was born on 13 January 1935 in Nýřany near Pilsen. Her father, František Beránek, worked as a foreman in Škoda Plzeň. Her mother Anna Beránek, née Hanzlíčková, was a housewife. After the occupation of the Sudetenland, the family moved from Nýřany to Plzeň. At the end of the Second World War, she witnessed Allied air raids on Pilsen, one of which destroyed the house they lived in. During the air raids, her younger brother was born under dramatic circumstances. After the war she became a member of Junák and Sokol, exrcised at sokol meetings and participated in Scout camps. She graduated from the Secondary School of Economics in Pilsen and after passing her final exam she joined the Škoda Plants in Pilsen, where she worked until her unexpected disability retirement. After a few years she decided not to receive the disability pension and joined the economic department of the Military Hospital in Pilsen as a civilian employee. She worked in this position until her retirement. She spent practically her whole life in Pilsen, where she was living at the time of the recording in 2022.
