Mum came into the corridor and smiled, and I immediately recognised her by her beautiful teeth
Ludmila Vlachová, née Koláčková, was born on 30 April 1937 in the village of Vidče as the only child of Karel and Marie Koláček. Bother her parents were active in the resistance during World War II. Her father was arrested for his activities, and following a failed attempt to escape from prison, he was executed in Wrocław in April 1944; her mother was imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp for nearly two years. Before her arrest, her mother hid Ludmila in a children‘s home in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, where she remained until the end of the war, when they were happily reunited. In 1951 her mother married again, and the family moved to Olomouc.