Eva Šestáková

"Then, after the coup, it was such that Daddy was chairman of the National Committee for a year after the war. Then the party and the government took that position away from him because he was not politically suitable for it. That was in 1946, and by 1951 they had already moved us off the farm, so in 1951 in July we moved to Skuhrov to the mill, to one room. A week before us, my grandmother and grandfather moved from Mikov to Malý Újezd. We were only there for a year because it wasn't... we had our furniture stored in the yard. And grandpa and grandma did the same in Malý Újezd. So then we found accommodation - my dad did - in Valin's villa in Kokořínský Důl, and my grandmother and grandfather in the Štampach mill."

"Both families my parents came from are peasant families, they came from farming backgrounds. My dad comes from here in Mělník, from Mělník Vtelno, where his parents lived. My mother, that is, my mother's family, came from the Čáslav region, where my grandfather's ancestors were administrators, and they worked as peasants on the manor estates of Žleb and Třemošnik. And then in the year after the land reform, when the noblemen's lands were confiscated, my great-grandfather bought up individual estates, which were so-called residual estates, for his sons. Because my grandfather came from a family with four sons and two daughters, each son then had his own farm."