I was zigzagging on my bike among the tanks
Věra Vozáková, née Popelková, was born on 30 September 1935 in Předmostí near Přerov. Her father sold leather, her mother was a housewife. Her older brother Lubomír Popelka was sent to forced labour at the end of the World War II, but he managed to escape and joined the partisans. In May 1945 he returned home triumphantly with the liberation troops. Věra Vozáková studied at the eight-year grammar school in Přerov, but after Zdeněk Nejedlý‘s reform in 1948 she had to return to the town school and then entered the trade academy. After graduation, she worked at the Meopta company. In August 1968, her brother Lubomír, who was then the editor of Czechoslovak TV in Brno, participated in illegal television broadcasting from Kojál near Vyškov, after the occupation of Brno television by the Soviet occupiers. With the onset of normalisation, he was expelled from television for this and allowed to work in unqualified jobs. Věra Vozáková passed through the normalisation checks, but because of her brother she was prevented from further carrer promotion. At the end of the 1980s, she was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward due to mental health problems. She and her husband raised two sons, and at the time of recording (2023) she was living in Alfred Skene‘s Home for the Elderly in Pavlovice near Přerov.