I liked working everywhere
Anna Tomíšková, née Drengubiaková, was born on 10th December, 1933 in Slovak town of Dohňany in a family of an engine-driver. During war she witnessed maneouvers of the German army during the Slovak National Uprising. In 1945, right after war, her father left with his whole family to Ervěnice in the Northern Bohemia, where he began working as an excavator driver in the Jan Šverma mine. After finishing the basic school the witness worked in a power plant, in a spinning mill and served at a farmer in Eastern Bohemia. Yet she lost the job due to forced collectivisation. Following return back North she worked with her father at an excavator, but due to health issues she had to leave and cleaned offices. When old Ervěnice were displaced due to mining, she moved to a block of flats in Jirkov. In the mine she met her husband, with whom she raised three daughters. She retired in 1988.