JUDr. Jana Černá

* 1954

Nový obyvatel Sudet po roce 1945, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu
Invaze vojsk Varšavské smlouvy, Sametová revoluce v Československu
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    Anonymous threatened to kill her over a cemetery for fallen Wehrmacht soldiers

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    "I'm proud of the fact - even though people may criticize me for this today - that it was my idea to join with the town of Bad Homburg and make a cemetery here [in Mariánské Lázně] for the fallen German children, who were young people when I saw their birth years... And old people, because there was an infirmary here during the war. Their bones were in sacks, it was undignified. They were folded somewhere. Today their cemetery is in Marianske Lazne. We got in touch with Bad Homburg, it's a very rich town and today it's a twin town [of Marienbad]. The Sudeten Germans from Mariánské Lázně were moved to Bad Homburg and had an eminent interest in having a cemetery for their ancestors. When I found out that the remains were buried somewhere like that, we built a cemetery. And that's when something began that I had never experienced before. It was probably a little bit from the communists too, but you won't find out because the threats were anonymous. I started getting anonymous letters saying they were going to kill me. Phone calls, or letters dropped in the mailbox, but mostly phone calls. The children picked up the phone: 'We'll kill your mother if she doesn't resign.' Then the secret services got in touch with me, because they kept threatening to kill me. Then my wheel came off on the Regent [car], the technical test said it was loose artificially."

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    Students put a photo of Jan Palach on the bulletin board, the class teacher was fired by the principal

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    "Then, when it was the anniversary of [Jan] Palach's self-immolation, we had Professor Pomerová as our German teacher. She lived on Main Street. She didn't have children, but she loved us very much. She was a German teacher. We all came in black, with black armbands, on the day of the anniversary of [Jan] Palach's self-immolation. We put Palach on the bulletin board. And we held the mourning. She came and said, 'Children, please don't do this. Please, on your knees, don't do it.' The consequence was, we didn't get hurt that much, but she was thrown out. I won't say the name of the headmaster. We weren't even allowed to have a printed bag. But I really remember Palach a lot, it shook me up terribly. With all of us, with those students, the whole class stood together, we came really honestly in those black dresses and put Palach on the bulletin board, even though [the class teacher] begged us to take it down. He couldn't fire the whole class, so he fired her."

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The whole town fell silent and the tank turned its tunk barrel towards our balcony

Jana Černá during filming
Jana Černá during filming
zdroj: filming Post Bellum
zdroj: filming Post Bellum
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Jana Černá, née Zelková, was born on 28 August 1954 in Mariánské Lázně. She grew up in a family that faced political pressure because of her parents‘ origins and activities. Her father Jan Zelko, originally from France, was a former member of Junák, while her mother Jarmila was the daughter of an emigrant to the USA. Jana graduated from high school in Mariánské Lázně in the early 1970s. Despite initial difficulties caused by personnel reasons, she was accepted to the Faculty of Law at Charles University, which she successfully completed. Later, she furthered her education with a doctorate in insurance. After her studies, Jana worked in Prague in the insurance department of the Keramika company. After returning to Mariánské Lázně, she changed several jobs, including a position in the Property Administration of ROH convalescent homes and as a controller in the municipal transport company. In the 1980s, her family was under State Security surveillance. The turning point in her life was November 1989, when she became actively involved in the activities of the Civic Forum in Mariánské Lázně. In the 1990s she became a member of the town council and served as deputy mayor. During her tenure, she was involved in important projects such as the construction of a retirement home in Úšovice and the establishment of a cemetery for fallen members of the German Wehrmacht, and faced threats for the controversial nature of this project. After leaving the post of deputy mayor, Jana Černá devoted herself to her law practice in Mariánské Lázně.

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