Eleonora Dujková

“They wrote for me to come quickly, that Granddad isn’t feeling well at all, so we came to Doudleby, and Granddad died. He had a very nice funeral, the people of Doudleby liked him, he was even given a salute by the fire brigade... And when I was returning from the funeral, I had my three-months-old daughter Markéta with me, one lady there held her in her arms for me, and she was giving her back to me and I wanted to go to the hall for some things, that we’d take the train afterwards, and she told me: ‘You won’t get in there any more, the hall is sealed off...’”

“I was there [at the stately home] once during totality, and I didn’t say who I was, I bought a ticket, and they started saying: ‘Look how they lived here, it was leaking all over the place...’ - But they hadn’t moved a finger to repair anything on the house for ten years, that’s why it was leaking. Of course we couldn’t have lived there if it had leaked on our heads. And they bad-mouthed our family quite a bit.”