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

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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.