Following the 1948 coup, she was arrested in 1949 and sentenced to 20 years in jail. She spent eleven years in prisons in Prague, Jihlava and Plzeň working as a seamstress, before being pardoned by President Antonín Novotný as part of a large amnesty in 1960. During her time in prison she had organised hunger strikes, and suffered two heart attacks. After being released, she remained under the supervision of the StB until her death in Velichovky in 1962. She was posthumously awarded the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in 1992.