Marie Kudeříková

[2] Her life story was featured in the film And Give My Love to the Swallows by the Czech director Jaromil Jireš.

The language school was moved from Brno to Veverská Bítýška, and at that time Kudeříková joined the Youth Union, an organization closely connected to the banned Central Committee of the Communist Party.

Later she focused her activities on carrying out sabotage with a group of young people from surrounding towns and villages.

During her imprisonment, she worked as a painter of children's toys and began writing the recollections of her life in the form of letters.

The brutal method of her execution (beheading by axe) shocked Czech society, although it was illegal to talk about the circumstances of her case.

[6] Following the fall of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, the legacy of Maruška Kudeříková was questioned in a documentary made by Czech Television.

Among other things, the documentary[7] notes that a poorly organized resistance action arranged by Kudeříková and her collaborators led to the imprisonment of many innocent persons in Nazi concentration camps.