“Communism devastated the soul of the nation. They stole our future.”
Anna Honová, was born as Krmenčíková on August 8th 1926 in Uherský Brod. After her graduation at an economical school at Uherské Hradiště, she worked as a cashier clerk and accountant in Luhačovice. For a short period of time she lived in Prague in the flat of Mrs. Pokorná-Purkyňová, a granddaughter of Jan Evangelista Purkyně, which was frequented by the Prague intelligentsia, which also formed Anna's patriotism. After her return from Prague, she returned to accounting and accepted a job offer from Mr. Bruštík, the owner of a food company Raciola. She was accused of marring the interrogation, grouping with other subversive individuals and distribution of anti-communist pamphlets, and spent two and a half years in custody in Uherské Hradiště and Brno. In Uherské Hradiště she was interrogated and threatened by the feared interrogator Holub. In 1968 she co-founded the K 231 organization i.e. the Club of Former Political Prisoners and was again interrogated at the state police. She is an administrator of the local branch of Confederation of Political Prisoners in Uherské Hradiště and a chairlady of a Revision Commission in Prague. In 2007 she was honored by the Czech president Václav Klaus with the Medal of Merit.
