My father was arrested, my husband was fired from his job. She suffered from communism from the beginning to the end
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Anna Vaňatová, nee. Chládková, was born on 13 April 1941 in Brno. She grew up in Letovice, where her father František Chládek ran a furniture business. In 1949, the Communists sentenced her father to two years of forced labour and nationalized the company. Due to these circumstances, the witness was later not accepted to the art and industry high school in Brno, which she got into. She eventually studied at the agricultural school in Děčín, where she met her husband, Václav Vaňata, who was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ). They worked in various agricultural jobs and settled in Žlutice. Her husband was fired from his job in 1969 because of his views, and had problems finding new employment. He died in 1973. Her children also had problems with the possibility to study under communism. Anna Vaňatová worked as a primary school teacher, she also worked in Pionýr and as an educational counsellor and social worker. In 2024 she lived in Žlutice.
