Marie Kavková

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  • "You know, they weren't happy because they were so confused about where they were going to go. My parents didn't really want to go to the apartment building, they were used to going around the building. And then when it got to the point that we had to, they still didn't sign up for anything anywhere - you had to sign up for where you wanted to go - so then my dad - but they didn't ask me any questions - he signed up for Nové Dolní Kralovice, as they are near Vraždové Lhotice. That's where we should have gone. And then my brother came from Prague, and eventually they thought about the fact that I had this six-year-old girl and where I would go to work, because there wasn't much work there, you had to commute to somewhere in Ledeč, Zruč. In the end, in Zruč, they even cancelled it, like the Sázavan. So my brother told us to go to Benešov. So my parents went there, cancelled it and we applied for Benešov. So here we are."

  • "I trained as a cook, then I took my high school diploma, and I graduated at the age of twenty-two. And in the meantime, from the age of seventeen until I was about nineteen, I went to Ledeč nad Sázavou and cooked in a hotel there as a cook. And at the same time I was always going to Prague, once a fortnight. And then at nineteen I got married, which didn't work out. Then I went to Vulkán, where I cooked in the factory canteen. In those days, we weren't allowed to miss a single day of unemployment, you had to be employed all the time. I worked in the canteen there, then I went on maternity leave and was at home for three years. After three years, I went to the office. Our mother was a payroll clerk there and I did some work there too, by then I had graduated from high school. And then, when we left Kralovice and we were here in Benešov, I applied to the hospital for financial accounting. And in the meantime, before they took me, I went to the dairy. It was on the corner here, as you go to Konopiště. I was there for two months at the milk, we did some work there. And then they accepted me, so I went to that hospital, and I was there until I retired."

  • "Then we knew we would have to move from Kralovice, so we moved back... my parents, my dad, they didn't want to go to the apartment building, neither did my mom. So we flew around the country again, looking for a house. But we didn't have any money, so we were actually waiting for it, they said that they would give us the house back and that they would give us some money. So that's why we stayed in Kralovice until the end, until 1971 when we moved there, in 1972 they flooded it. So we actually lived there in the ruined Kralovice slowly. It was not pleasant. And we knocked down our house, peeling off bricks and taking it to a barn somewhere to save something. Because my parents still didn't know if we might need the bricks if we built something. So that's where we hid it. And all kinds of things, there was a lot of stuff in that trade, and they took the machines there too. And in the end it ended up that we applied to Benešov for an apartment building, because we had no other option and we couldn't buy a house. It was such a mess. We were all sad about it, my parents went to the apartment building, but they didn't like it."

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My family had to move out because of the flooding of my home village

Marie Kavková, 2024
Marie Kavková, 2024
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Marie Kavková, née Horáčková, was born on 19 February 1944 in Dolní Kralovice. Her mother came to the village in 1939 and started working in her father’s butcher shop. Dad lost this trade after 1948. Because of the construction of the Švihov reservoir, the family had to move out of Dolní Kralovice, as the village was demolished and flooded. The family moved to Benešov in 1971. Marie Kavková got married at the age of 19, the couple had a daughter, but divorced shortly afterwards. She trained as a cook and worked all her life in the hospital in the financial department. She retired in 2000. In 2024 she lived in Benešov.