Have a good conscience
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Eva Valentová, née Čermáková, was born on 23 May, 1947 in a family of a commercial engineer, Jiří Čermák. He worked in in the company Konstruktiva for a number of years, but already prior to the so called Winning February he got fired for being in favour of so called agrarian fascism. In 1953 Jiří Čermák was arrested and sentenced to four years due to suspected counter-state activity. Finally he served three years in Jáchym, which he spent mainly in the dreaded radioactive smolt sorting plant. In 1962 Eva Valentová began to attend electro-technical industrial college in Prague - Na Příkopě. In 1966 she successfully graduated. Due to wrong cadre profile and the need to financially help out her parents she started immediately in her job in the Energy Research Institute. There she met her future husband, which she married in 1968. Gradually they had two children. Due to bad flat situation the witness lived with her children in a family house in the Southern Bohemia and only in 1982 the family managed to move in together. A year later the marriage broke up. Until the Velvet Revolution the Eva Valentová worked in the Research Institute for Material Protection. After 1989 she left the field to teach German and French. At the same time she earned extra money as a guide for Čedok. In 2009 she retired. Currently she lives mainly in her family house in the Southern Bohemia or with her son in Prague-Dolní Počernice. She has got four granddaughters.