The sawmill was nationalized, the debts were not
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Bohumila Louková was born on September 14, 1938 in Brno. She lived with her family in Holubice near Brno. The mother, Antonie Franková, came from poor circumstances, while the father, František Frank, was the son of a rich farmer. Bohumila had two more brothers. Her father built his own sawmill in Holubice, a successful business, which was set on fire probably intentionally just after the war. The family built a new, more modern sawmill in a short time. The Franks soon lost it during nationalization. The family house was destroyed by a carpet raid during the war, during which died the grandmother, the father´ mother. The family lived hiding in the cellar for many years; later the parents built a house on their own. Bohumila first attended a boys‘ class at a school in Rousínov. She later studied textile engineering and graduated in 1957. She was a member of a singing and drama group, attended the group of Pioneer and participated in traditional costume festivities. She loved sports. She went through the Orel, Sokol and enjoyed participating in the Spartakiads. She could not afford full-time university studies for financial or staff reasons. Later, she studied distantly at the University of Economics in Bratislava. After returning to Bohemia, she joined the Brno Research Institute of Knitting. She met her first husband on a business trip and moved with him to Varnsdorf. In 1969, however, the husband himself emigrated without a family. The witness and her little daughter thus found themselves in a difficult financial situation. The second husband was 22 years older; they married in 1972 and had a second daughter together. Bohumila worked on the national committee in Varnsdorf, in the company Wholesale of clothing goods, and later in Rumburk in Rukov as production manager. In 1986, she returned to Brno with her family and suffered a stroke two years later due to exhaustion. She returned to the north and still lives in the village of Rybniště in the Šluknov foothills (2019).
