Eva Dušková, born Vokálová

Eva Dušková, born Vokálová, was born on November 11th, 1931, in Prague to the family of the builder and architect František Vokál, (died 1943). After the war his wife Ludmila rented out the basement of their villa in Prague to technical students. Through them, Eva became acquainted with Miloslav Choc, a student and functionary of the national socialists. Miloslav Choc crossed the borders in the spring of 1948, with the intention of emigrating, but he later decided to join the resistance and he returned entrusted with several missions. After the May murder of Augustin Schramm, an important functionary of the partisan movement and Security Major, Choc was the one accused, arrested in Olomouc on the 2nd of June. Shortly before his arrest, the State Security also arrested his girlfriend's family. Choc was sentenced to death and executed on February 11th, 1949. Eva and Ludmila Vokálová ended up in prison (Eva spent five years in juvenile detention centres in Hradec Králové, Kostelec nad Orlicí - based in Doudleby - in the juvenile girls' detention centre in Lnáře and the centre in Zámrsk). Her mother was not released from prison until 1960, dying soon after from the effects of the long imprisonment and slave-like working conditions.

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