Do everything honestly
Marie Spilková was born on December 27, 1921 in a remote area of Humperky in the village of Dědová near Hlinsko. Together with her younger sister, she helped at the family farm and work in agriculture remained important throughout her life. She started working on the family farm right after finishing elementary school. To avoid “Arbeiteinsatz” (total deployment) during the Second World War, she worked in a hosiery factory “Spangaro a Musil” in Chrast u Chrudimi. She has unpleasant memories of the first wave of Germans who came to her village at the beginning of the war. At the end of the war, the family’s secluded house became a refuge for partisans (prisoners, who escaped from transports) of various nationalities. Marie’s father and other villagers supported them with food and provided them shelter. During the period of collectivisation of agriculture, Marie’s family was forced to the “union cooperative” (JZD). At that time, Marie was employed in the factory Plysan Hlinsko and in addition to that, she had to do the prescribed work for the union cooperative and worked at home at the croft. Her private life was unhappy - her partner, with whom she had a child, left her, and later her son committed suicide. In 2019, she lived in elderly care home in Hlinsko and recalled on her work, and animals she took care of.
