My father and uncle helped the partisans and my aunt kept the Javoříčko massacre secret for years
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Alois Bílek was born on 25 June 1934 in the small village of Stará Roveň in the Svitavsko region into an agricultural family. His parents farmed a 7 ha farm. At the end of World War II, a partisan group was operating near the village. The father of the family, Josef Bílek, cooperated with the partisans. At night, he went with them to the mayors and foresters in the area. After the war, Alois Bílek entered the grammar school in Jevíček, then went to Prague to the Czech Technical University. His parents did not want to join the JZD (Unified agriculture cooperative) after the communist takeover, so they had their supplies increased as a punishment and faced threats that their son would not be able to study. After graduation, he joined the Rakona company in Rakovník as a designer. In 1958 he married and they raised two sons. After two years at Rakona, he was offered a teaching position at the new agricultural high school, which he accepted. Alois Bílek found himself in the teaching profession. He taught first in Rakovník, later also in Kladno and Moravská Třebová. His lifelong passion was dancing. He danced his way up to the National Theatre‘s dance company, where he performed for a year in a production of Jiříkovo vidění. He tap danced with the group EDGE. In 2024 he lived in Moravská Třebová.
