What‘s in your heart cannot be taken away from you
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Jindřiška Švajdová, née Králíková, was born on December 17, 1939 in Lusice near Hodonín into a Catholic-oriented family. Her first memories date back to the end of World War II. Her parents and grandparents housed soldiers of the liberation army. The soldiers came in a rather poor state. After the advent of communism in 1948, Jindřiška‘s family moved to Gottwaldov (today‘s Zlín) for work. The Kraliks immediately came into the crosshairs of the local Communists because they attended church services. Despite the apparent religious beliefs of her parents, Jindřiška was admitted to the Secondary Pedagogical School in Kromeriz in 1954. The students of the Secondary Pedagogical School were under particularly strict ideological supervision, as they were to raise new citizens of the socialist state. In order to graduate, the believing girl had to sign a declaration that she was renouncing her faith in God. But she never really gave up on faith during her whole life, she experienced it only privately. During her life as a teacher, she was met with many of the absurdities of the regime. She had to deal with the fact that, as a teacher in a strongly Catholic village, she had a duty to persuade the parents of the entrusted children not to send them to religious classes and not to go to church. During the 1960s, her superiors ordered her to join the Communist Party, she always refused to do so. She and her husband Zdeněk Švajda raised their son Petr and in 2021 they lived in Březnice in Wallachia.
