Karel Tomek

"After the war [grandfather Leopold Slíva] said he no longer wanted to be politically active. Well, he was tempted by the People's Party and finally he took a cue from the National Socialists and was actually elected to the Parliament for the National Socialists in the 1940s. He was there basically until February [1948]. By September, 40 people had already received notice that there was a warrant ready for their arrest. So he actually thought that he didn't have the strength to end up in the prisons again somewhere, so he left with the leadership of those National Socialists. And the only one who stayed was Horáková."

"In his fourteenth year [grandfather Leopold Slíva] enlisted in the war and in his sixteenth year he was captured. He was somewhere in Siberia, mining iron ore for a while. Then he joined the Czechoslovak Legion, was in the 6th Rifle Regiment, and went through the whole anabasis, the Russian anabasis, all the way to Vladivostok, and came back in 1920. He took the longest route - around India, through the Suez Canal to Genoa and then home by train. After the war, he took over the farm immediately. In addition, in the nineteenth year, our village of Šumice was hit by a huge flood, so that part of the village was basically razed to the ground, because it was still built of what we call pig bricks. So when the water came, it got wet and the houses fell down, so he actually got involved in the reconstruction of the village. And then in the twenty-eighth or even twenty-sixth he was elected mayor and also district councillor."