Václav Kalivoda

“Because he was an employee of Jednota strove for the house, my father wanted to leave from here because he knew it was not worth it for his family, so he sold it to them later. But under pressure, they threaten him. When I applied for it, I had to prove that he had not sold it of his own free will, and I sued Jednota for two years. When I started to sue them, their lawyer told me: ‘Mr. Kalivoda, no one has ever won a court case against us.’ It was at the time when Jednota was still a strong organization, then it fell apart. Two years later, when I won, [the lawyer] said to me: 'I have never known such a stubborn person.' And he slapped me on the back. I had to prove it by witnesses, which means my neighbours, who remembered it, testified for me. Then I tracked down that a man who was an employee of Jednota made a forensic appraisal on the house at the time. I went to see him and to find out if he remembered it. He remembered exactly how they threatened my dad that if he did not sell, they would liquidate the whole family. He was willing to testify to me in court."

“My uncle ran the hotel Sázava in Ledeč nad Sázavou where he allowed the national socialists to make a meeting. Their chairman was engineer Bičiště… He asked my uncle Bohumil to take him to Humpolec to Mrs. Zábranová who were a member of Parliament, they lived in a villa near the school. Because my uncle’s car was broken, he borrowed his neighbour’s car and took engineer Bičiště here. He dropped him off at the villa and went to my father to the manorial house, whereupon they were all picked up, including my father, who was perhaps only in custody, and then released. I do not know how long he was there. The uncle was sentenced and he was not released until the huge political amnesty in 1960. And he served in Příbram.”