They scrapped it all, just as it was
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Tomáš Šták was born in 1934 in the village Kostelec in the Zlín region. His father worked for the Baťa company and later he became a private entrepreneur and an owner of a sawmill. After the coup d’état in February 1948 he was forced to discontinue his sawmill business and less than three years later his sawmill was forcibly torn down. The property was destroyed and scrapped with the assistance from members of the SNB police. Tomáš learnt the joiner’s trade after completing elementary school and he worked in the companies Tonet and Stavomontáž before doing his compulsory military service. After his return from the military until his retirement he was employed in the shoemaking factory Svit where he worked as a joiner, cutter and driver. Tomáš Šták is retired since 1991.