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Marie Velíšková, nee. Bergová, was born on 22 October 1936 in Bílá Lhota, Litovel region. Shortly after her birth, her mother Tekla died from the consequences of a home birth. Little Marie was taken to the care of her aunt and uncle Straka in Úsov, where she grew up. In Úsov, she witnessed the unfortunate fate of the Jewish Schulz couple, who were transported and perished in Terezín. At the age of six, she was taken back into the care of her father, who was a saffron farmer at the Bílá Lhota estate (today‘s Bílá Lhota Arboretum). When she went to Úsov for holidays, she had to cross the border between the Protectorate and the Great German Reich. After studying at the medical school, she joined the University Hospital in Olomouc as an instrumentalist for Prof. Vladislav Rapant. Here she also experienced the work of the religious sisters in the ranks of the medical staff and witnessed their forced departure to the internment camp in Bílá Voda in Jesenice. In 2024, at the time of filming, she was living in her apartment in Olomouc.
