We lost our home for many years
Daniela Žemlová was born on July 23, 1945 in the family of lawyer Dr. Mateja Vaníček, as the second child. She grew up in Bratislava until they were evicted on February 28, 1952 as part of Action B. They were supposed to be resettled in Turček, but ended up in Nové Sady. There, Daniela began studying in primary school. In 1954, after the death of Stalin and Gotwald, the family was able to return to Bratislava. But not to their house. She graduated at the Vazovová gymnasium in 1962 and continued studying biology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Commenius University in Bratislava. The older sister went to study in Munich in 1968. In 1972, her permit was revoked. She married there to get an immigration pass. She never returned to Czechoslovakia. She stayed to live in Germany. In 1967, Daniela finished her studies and started an internal aspiration at the Academy of Sciences. In 1969, they managed to get their parents‘ house back. Daniela married her colleague in 1973. A year later, they had a daughter, Jana, and twenty months later, a son, Boris. In 1989, she received an invitation to an internship in the USA - Missouri. When she returned, she had already arrived in a free country. The communist regime fell during her stay. After the disintegration of the republic, she left science. She helped for a while at the Faculty of Education of UK and then worked for two years at the Ministry of Culture. In 1994, she applied for an job selection process for the position of foreign secretary of the general bishop of the evangelical confession. She worked there for twelve years. Today she is retired.