After my brother was hanged, dad´s hair turned completely grey
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Libuše Macková was born on 8 March 1921 as one of twelve children to parents Martin and Maria Pavlík in the village of Jedlí in the Zábřeh region. During World War II, she served in a mill in Zábřeh, where Jaroslav Tůma, one of resistance leaders in Zábřeh, worked as an accountant. He died during a firefight with the Germans on 8 July 1944. Her brother, Martin Pavlík, was executed in Jedlí on 10 July 1944 for involvement in resistance. Her younger brother Jeník and sister Jarmila spent several months in Nazi prisons. Although her father´s hair turned grey overnight due to the horror of losing his son, he did not lose his courage and dug a bunker in the woods near his field, where three Soviet fugitives and a Pole were hiding in the spring of 1945. After the war, Libuše served on a farm in Červená Voda, then worked as a cleaner in a school for non-commissioned officers and later, until her retirement, in a textile factory. In 1949 she married Jan Macek and a year later their only daughter Stanislava was born. At the time of filming in 2021, she was living in Červená Voda.
