With faith, man is freer
Daniela Ženatá was born on 20th February 1957 to Eva and Josef Prudký. The family was forced by the communist regime in the 1950s to join a unified agricultural cooperative (JZD), as a result of which her grandmother committed suicide. After studying at the University of Chemical Technology in Prague, she married Daniel Ženatý, with whom she raised four children. In November 1989, she and her husband took part in a demonstration at Letná. After the Revolution, they hid together in the parsonage in Nové Město na Moravě a Soviet deserter, Alexey Ženatý, who after the Soviet army‘s deportation obtained Czech citizenship and took the family surname Ženatý in gratitude. After 1989 she taught at primary and secondary schools. She then became editor-in-chief of the evangelical magazine Český bratr. In 2024, she lived with her husband, Daniel Ženaty, synod elder emeritus of the Evangelical Church, in Věstínek in the Highlands.