I wish people could recognize good and evil and watch out for the bad people
Marie Roszyncová, née Procházková, was born on 24th January 1941 in Bílý Újezd near Dobruška. Her father, Karel Procházka, was a teacher, a member of the Czechoslovak People‘s Party and a member of the Interim National Assembly. After the coup in February 1948, he attempted to cross the border illegally, but fell into an ambush set up by State Security officers – an action nicknamed „Stone“. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the process of Ing. Jan Žemla. He was released during amnesty in 1960. The witness has only seen her father only four times in 12 years, and always under very stressful circumstances. The family was driven out of the apartment in Dobruška; they resorted to a modified cellar, where the family lived until father‘s return. The witness and her sister faced bullying at school; Marie, as the daughter of a traitor, was not allowed to study, but thanks to the dedication and courage of her parents‘ friends, she eventually successfully completed high school. She got married and had two children. Along with her husband she participated in the restoration of Junák in Dobruška in 1968. Her husband was fired from his job as part of the normalization cleansing, and for the next two years the family lived on the income based on occasional partial jobs. After the Velvet Revolution the Roszynec family renewed by the Scout section again in Dobruška, which the witness has been dedicating herself until today.