The seized farm was used by the Communist Party officials as the headquarters of the National Committee and the JZD (Unified Agriculture Cooperative)
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Květa Šestáková was born on October 27, 1921 in Ronov nad Doubravou in the family mill. In 1922 her parents moved to Mikov u Vavřinče in the Mělník district. Here they started farming, as their father had acquired a large plot of land: 80 hectares of forest and 40 hectares of fields. In 1923, his brother Václav was born in Mikov, and four years later his sister Jana. His father was an evangelical. Květa Šestáková went to the municipal school in Malý Újezd, she attended the town school in Mělník. After completing her primary education, she entered the family school in Trutnov (1938-1939). She then attended a girls‘ horticultural school in Prague-Krč, and from 1942 she worked in a dairy in Tábor. After two years she returned home from Tábor and helped her parents on the farm. In February 1948 she married Václav Šesták, a farmer in Zahájí near Mělník Vtelno. They had two daughters, Eva and Zora. Despite the unfavourable political situation after the communist coup, they were able to work and live on their farm for the first three years after their marriage. However, in 1951, as private farmers, they received an eviction order from the National Committee in Zahájí to move to the abandoned mill in Skuhrov within twenty-four hours. Václav Šesták asked for an extension of the deadline, which was changed to forty-eight hours. The seized farm of the Šesták family was used by the Communist Party officials as the headquarters of the municipal national committee and the JZD. Václav Šesták could not farm in Skuhrov because he was deployed in the mines in Kladno. Subsequently, the family moved to Mělník. After her daughters started school, Květa Šesták took a job as a cook at the training and recreation centre of the power plants in Harasov. In 1967, her husband was hired as the manager of this centre, a post he held until his death in January 1975. Květa worked at the centre until her retirement in 1978. After 1989, the family got their property back and Květa Šestáková was able to return to Zahájí, where she lived until 2001, after which she moved to a farm in Mikov, where she spent her childhood.
