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Jaromír Šída was born on 12 January 1925 to Marie Šídová, née Hnátková, and Josef Šída. His father initially trained to be a shop assistant but ever since 1915 worked with the state railway company. Jaromír also has a sister Milena. As a child he took part in the so-called Workers‘ Physical Education Union. In 1936 he began studying at a grammar school in Prague‘s Libeň district. After 1941 an illegal resistance movement was established in his school. In 1944 he passed the so-called military graduation exam. In the same year that he was supposed to graduate he was sent to do forced labor with the anti-air raid unit in Germany. In May 1945 he started his training in Měčice near Prague to become a train dispatcher. He had worked as one ever since. Jaromír Šída has one son.