Jarmila Přibylová

* 1938

  • "I was scared because it was August and my parents were at the cottage with my daughter who was two years old. I didn't know what was going on because there were no cell phones, nobody had any, those didn't exist. I was pretty scared about what might have happened to them because it was a cabin in the woods, so there was no way to know what was going on. Then my dad somehow reached a phone in the village. There was a public pay phone, so they called me and said they were fine. I calmed down. Then they came back, and I guess the journey was wild too because Russians with attack rifles guarded them while on the bus. They didn't feel good about that. I was just so relieved when they came back."

  • "We ran away from our house in the dark, it was almost dawn. I remember the lady we hid with in the next block before going to Nusle... Well I remember she let me sleep in a trough and made me fried eggs with chives. Other than that, I don't know anything. We had to get out of there soon anyway."

  • "One day there was an air raid while I was on my way home from school. It was quite far away; kids probably wouldn't want to go to school so far nowadays. The school was in Nusle and we lived above Jezerka. I was walking home from school and the sirens sounded the air raid alarm. I just kept going. A lady came running out of a house and said: 'You have to hide, you can't just walk like this.' They hid me in a shelter in the basement. Then the sirens ended the alarm. I walked back and my poor mother was running all over Nusle looking for me because she had no idea what had happened to me. We met up eventually."

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    Praha, 07.10.2025

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During the Prague Uprising, we ran through the cellar

Jarmila Přibylová with brother, 1946
Jarmila Přibylová with brother, 1946
zdroj: Witness's archive

Jarmila Přibylová was born in Prague on 10 May 1938. Her father František Hlína worked as a clerk at the Pension Institute. Her mother Františka Hlínová was a housewife until she joined Tesla Karlín as a worker in the 1950s. The witness has many memories of the end of World War II. She experienced the Prague Uprising, and there was a barricade in the street next to their house. The house eventually burned down and the family got an apartment confiscated from the Germans. As a child, she was a girl scout and her father was a National Socialist. Despite their political beliefs, the family was not persecuted too much according to her memories. In 1953, Jarmila Přibylová joined Uhelné sklady as an accountant. This is where she met her future husband Jiří Přibyl, whom she married in 1961. Their daughter was born in 1966. Later on, the witness attended an evening school of economics and focused on accounting. She was living in Prague in 2025.