 Hromádko spent almost 10 years of his life in prisons, labour camps and detention camps under different regimes and in different countries.Later, in 1982, he published a book of memoirs focused mostly on his prison experience and disillusionment from revolutions.Hromádko was born 30 August 1909 in Kněž, Bohemia, to forester Otto Hromádko and his wife Marie Hromádková.