"We spoke English (with my husband in the 1950s) and people would stop us on the street and tell us: ´One has to speak Czech here.´ They were probably thinking we were speaking in German or what not..."
Mrs. Lucy Doležalová, a Czech citizen of British origin, now living n Prague 4, is the widow of Jan Doležal, a member of Czechoslovak independent armed brigade in Great Britain. She was born in a small town in Worcestershire County. After completing her grammar school studies, she found employment as a post office clerk in a neighbouring county. This is where she first met her future husband. A son was born to the Doležal family during the war. Mr. Doležal was sent to the eastern front with a group of officers; in 1944 he fought in the Slovak National Uprising. He was however denounced by Slovak civilians and spent the rest of the war in the Mauthausen concentration camp. After the war he returned to his wife in Britain, but later decided that the family would move to Czechoslovakia. Their children later moved to Australia, and Lucy Doležalová thus lived in Prague by herself. Now she does volunteer work in the Sue Ryder home.
