Dita Edelmanová

* 1970

Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Příbuzní významných osobností
Sametová revoluce v Československu
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    Grandfather preferred to pretend that the State Security guy was his friend.

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    "When I was a little girl, we weren't allowed to talk about anything at home. I came home from school one day, it might have been '83. My grandfather had all the stuff he had stored in the attic taken outside and he was there with a man. And I came in and I said, 'Hey, Grandpa, what do you have here?' and he said, 'I'm cleaning out the attic and my friend is looking to see if he can find anything.' And that was it for me, that story. And when I was going around with Grandpa to all these different events, one day I said, 'Hey Grandpa, look, there's that friend of yours who used to come to us,' and Grandpa smiled and said, 'That wasn't a friend. Back then, they searched our place and looked for things, so they were searching it.' And I said, 'Why didn't you tell me? Because you would have given it away.' So he covered it up. It was a search of the house and I didn't even notice."

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    Search by State Security because of photos from a hiking trip

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    "I couldn't go to Pioneer, so I went to the hiking club. So there was a love of hiking in me. And after school, how do you get into hiking other than hiking with the retired hiking club? So I went hiking with the young people, and we went out into the countryside, and we slept in the countryside under the open sky, which I enjoyed very much. One day we walked past the cemetery in Vrábeč and we used to throw wreaths behind the cemetery wall, so we collected the ribbons and made up different inscriptions. So we made up signs saying: 'Lenin never again. February 25th - sleep sweetly. And funny signs like that. And we took pictures of ourselves as youngsters and we took a lot of pictures. One day I had the photos developed and I brought them to the workshop where I worked, and we laughed so hard. Once in a while I would go home for lunch because it was fairly close. And one time I went home and took the photos home. And then when I came back from lunch, the State Security guys were already there and I had my locker emptied, my purse searched, the stuff at the work machine all emptied, and they caught me right away and started searching me. And I didn't know what was going on."

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    České Budějovice, 16.09.2025

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The comrade teacher kept pointing out that I was the granddaughter of the bad person

Dita Edelmanová with a book about her grandfather
Dita Edelmanová with a book about her grandfather
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Dita Edelmanová, née Ciprová was born on 22 March 1970 into a family marked by her grandfather Milan Malý‘s participation in the Western anti-Nazi resistance. As the granddaughter of a Western airman and fighter from Tobruk, she was not allowed to study the field she wanted to in the 1980s and experienced searches by State Security. Her grandfather‘s wartime fate was not discussed much at home for fear of further problems the family might have. It was only after the events of November 1989, in which Dita Edelmanová took an active part in České Budějovice, that her grandfather was again free to meet with his fellow soldiers and was sought out by journalists and historians. In his later years, it was his granddaughter Dita who took care of him and accompanied him to public talks for the public. After his death in 2013, Dita continues to care for her grandfather‘s memory, attending lectures and talks for schools, collaborating with museums and in 2024 she published the book Milan Malý - From Tobruk to the RAF.

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  • Dita Edelmanová in 2025
    Dita Edelmanová in 2025
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  • Dita Edelmanová with a book about her grandfather
    Dita Edelmanová with a book about her grandfather
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  • First birthday without mummy with grandpa Milan and daddy Eduard
    First birthday without mummy with grandpa Milan and daddy Eduard
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  • Friends on a hiking trip in 1988 with a made ribbon 25th FEBRUARY - LAST FAREWELL
    Friends on a hiking trip in 1988 with a made ribbon 25th FEBRUARY - LAST FAREWELL
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  • Grandfather and grandmother at the benefit concert in Metropol on September 20, 2011
    Grandfather and grandmother at the benefit concert in Metropol on September 20, 2011
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  • Charity concert in Metropol on September 20, 2011
    Charity concert in Metropol on September 20, 2011
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  • Charity concert in Metropol on 20 September 2011 - one of the first public talks by Dita about her grandfather's life journey
    Charity concert in Metropol on 20 September 2011 - one of the first public talks by Dita about her grandfather's life journey
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  • Celebration of 85th birthday with Emil Boček, Alois Dubec and Jan Horal
    Celebration of 85th birthday with Emil Boček, Alois Dubec and Jan Horal
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  • Milan Malý with his granddaughter Dita Edelmanová
    Milan Malý with his granddaughter Dita Edelmanová
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  • Milan Malý with his granddaughter Dita Edelmanová
    Milan Malý with his granddaughter Dita Edelmanová
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