People should be nice to each other, they shouldn’t go against each other
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Josef Kalcovský was born on 13 November 1919 in Mirohošť in Polish-controlled Volhynia. He came from a Czech family that immigrated to Volhynia in 1895. He attended a secondary school of economics and worked at a brewery. During World War II, after the liberation of Volhynia, he volunteered to Ludvík Svoboda’s army. He and his future wife Miluše fought at Dukla, in Slovakia, and in Moravia. They came all the way to Prague with the army. After the war the witness settled down in Czechoslovakia. He and his wife lived in the village of Hošnice in norther Bohemia, where he was employed as an economist at the local agricultural cooperative. He achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel. He died in March 2015.
