Ing. Karel Witz

"Look, it was terribly simple, I went round the houses, and I said, good sir, hello, I am this and that, and I have been organising this thing, we could take over the brewery, and if we would own it, you too will become one of the owners, and if we wouldn't, then, unfortunately, there would be nothing, as it's just an experiment. And that's how I went around the whole of Polička." - "He must have given you some kind of consent to represent them then?" - "It had to be certified by a notary." - "Of the 230 people who held the right, how many did you manage to reach?" - "All of them!" - "All of them? Well, that wasn't easy." - "Damn sure that wasn't easy." - "How long have you been doing this?" - "Twelve years." - "Well, wait a minute, but you got the brewery sooner, it didn't take 12 years." - "I know, but it took me 12 years to put all this together." - "But the court ruled sooner than in 12 years." - "Of course, the court ruled when it had 77 shares out of 113." - "This kind of restitution, has anyone else in Bohemia managed to do this?" - "No, no one, no one, and no one would succeed. Because first of all we are living in Bohemia and secondly I am the only one who could do this.”

"We didn't go to Polička, but we spent some time in the surrounding area, in Lačnov, in Sádek and in Telecí." - "Because your mother's family lived there?" - "No, our friends lived there. And we used to spend summer there, because as a university teacher my dad had a two-month lond vacation, so we would spend two months in the countryside every summer, always somewhere in the vicinity of Polička. And as we would go through Polička, one day, I might have been, I don't know, 12 years old, and he said, he pointed like this, this is where we are, this was how Dad pointed his finger, this is where we are, and he showed us those windows, this is where we lived. Not that he wanted to go there, as he couldn't anyway, but he said, this is where we lived."