The Black Barons was pretty tedious because it‘s so long and hard to transcribe
Olga Vaňková was born in Prague on 28 January 1934. Since her family was living lived right in the centre of Prague in Wenceslas Square, they moved to Beroun at the end of the war. When they came back, their window had been shot. She met her future husband in 1950 during a school work trip and they married in 1952. Her husband‘s father was a tradesman, so he was assigned to a PTP auxiliary battalion where the witness would visit him. On 21 August 1968, their two daughters wre in a camp in Rügen in the then German Democratic Republic (GDR) and had to return home in a hurry. In the 1980s Olga became involved in copying unofficial literature, transcribing Hrabal‘s I Served the King of England and The Black Barons by Švandrlík. She was excited about the Velvet Revolution and is still grateful for the change of regime in Czechoslovakia.