Zoe Klusáková-Svobodová

Czech academic and translator (1925–2022)

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Zoe Klusáková-Svobodová
Zoe Klusáková-Svobodová in 2009
Born	Zoe Klusáková 4 December 1925 Uzhhorod, Czechoslovakia
Died	12 December 2022(2022-12-12) (aged 97)
Alma mater	Czech Technical University in Prague
Occupation(s)	Economist, academic, translator
Spouse	Milan Klusák [cs] (m. 1949–1992; his death)
Children	Luďa Klusáková [cs]
Parent(s)	Ludvík Svoboda Irena Svobodová [cs]
Awards	State Defense Cross [cs]

Zoe Klusáková-Svobodová (4 December 1925 – 12 December 2022) was a Czech economist, academic, writer and translator. She was the daughter of Ludvík Svoboda, the President of Czechoslovakia from 1968 to 1975, and the widow of Czechoslovak diplomat, Milan Klusák [cs].^[1]^[2]^[3]

Biography

Klusáková-Svobodová was born in the city of Uzhhorod, Czechoslovakia (present-day Ukraine), on 4 December 1925.^[1] She was the youngest of two children, including her older brother, Miroslav. Her father, Ludvík Svoboda, was a general who would later become President of Czechoslovakia during the Communist era from 1968 to 1975. Her mother, Irena Svobodová [cs] (née Stratilová), became the First Lady of Czechoslovakia.^[1]

Her father, General Ludvík Svoboda, went into exile during the Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945) by Nazi Germany and the outbreak of World War II, while Zoe Klusáková-Svobodová remained in occupied Czechoslovakia with her mother and brother.^[1] The entire family joined the Czechoslovak resistance to Nazi occupation, specifically aiding Czechoslovak and foreign paratroopers who landed near Dřínov.^[1] However, the family and the larger resistance cell were discovered by the Gestapo, forcing Klusáková-Svobodová to flee into hiding in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands of southern Moravia from 1941 until the end of occupation in 1945.^[1] She and her mother first lived in hiding in the village of Hroznatín before moving to Džbánice for the remainder of the war.^[1] Her brother, Miroslav, was captured by the Nazis and died in the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.^[1]

Klusáková-Svobodová accounts of World War II and her involvement with the Czech resistance are archived in the Memory of Nations, an oral history initiative created by Post Bellum, a Czech nonprofit.^[1]

Klusáková-Svobodová became an economist and a notable Czech-Russian translator. She taught at the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague.^[1] She also devoted considerable effort to preserving the legacy of her parents, Ludvík Svoboda and Irena Svobodová, including as honorary chairwoman of the Ludvík Svoboda Society.^[1]^[2]

Her daughter, Czech historian Luďa Klusáková [cs], died in 2020.^[3]

Awards and recognitions

State Defense Cross [cs] (2009) - Awarded by the Ministry of Defence.^[4]

Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (2005, Russia)^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k "Zoe Klusáková-Svobodová 1925-2022". Memory of Nations. Post Bellum. 12 December 2022. Archived from the original on 27 December 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Zoe Klusáková – Svobodová se dožívá úctyhodného věku". Denik. 12 January 2020. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b Jancura, Vladimir (28 December 2022). "Zoe znamená život. Dcéra generála Ludvíka Svobodu ho mala dramatický". Pravda (Slovakia). Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
^ "Na Vítkově vojáci vzdali hold válečným veteránům. Osm jich dostalo vyznamenání". ČT24. 11 November 2019.
^ В посольстве РФ в Праге вручены медали чешским ветеранам