It could not be worse than in the 50’s. So I stayed.
Yvonne Šebesťáková, one of the last living „war brides“ was born in 1920 in London as Yvonne Cockell. She studied to be an actress, worked in health service during the war and took care of small children sent from shelled-London to the countryside. There she met and later married a tankist of an armoured brigade Karel Šebesťák. After the war, she and her husband moved to Czechoslovakia and both joined the Communist Party. Yvonne began to teach English and in the 60‘s she provided English language courses for Czechoslovak TV and taught translation and interpreting at a language school and at the Faculty of Philosophy. After 1968 she left the Party because of her disagreement with the occupation of the country by Warsaw pact forces. Still, she was able to translate and work as a self-employed English teacher. She currently lived in Prague. Yvonne Šebesťáková died in November 2017.
