He who is not able to give is a poor person
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Růžena Píčová was born on 14 April 1919 in Prague as the only daughter of the Šmíd couple. Her father František left the family when she was still a child, her mother Marie worked as a shop assistant in a sausage shop. Růžena was mostly brought up by her grandmother. After some time, her mother remarried. The family moved to Břevnov and Růžena started primary school there. She became a dental laboratory technician and then worked in a dentist‘s office. In September 1939, she married Josef Píč and after the birth of two children, a son and a daughter, she stayed in the household for some time. Due to health reasons, she worked as a clerk in the business department at the Statistical and Record Publishing House, but then returned to her profession as a dental laboratory technician. Her husband, Josef Píč, worked as a technician and developer of machine tools at Skoda Plants in Smichov and later became a professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University. In the sixties and seventies her husband worked at universities in Hyderabad, India, and Cairo, Egypt, and the witness accompanied him there. She was widowed in 1983. At the time of the interview (2021), Růžena Píčová lived in a home for the elderly in Tábor, had five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren, and was a member of the Church of the Brethren.
