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January 2, 2023

Dagmar Šimková's father - banker Jaroslav Šimek - built the villa on a steep slope above the Otava River and named it after his wife. He chose an exceptionally beautiful spot for his house on the outskirts of town, surrounded by trees and meadows. The house was reached via a stone staircase decorated with fat angels. In the garden he also built a greenhouse with orchids and also a stud farm, because horses were his love, especially those of his older daughter Marta. After 1948, the provincial administrator decided that strangers moved into the villa, leaving the family with only one room. The kitchen was shared by all tenants. Both Dagmar and her mother were arrested and imprisoned in 1952 for helping to hide in the garden of their mansion two "excited" university students and military deserters bound for the West. Dagmar was further angered that in Písek she was distributing leaflets with caricatures and texts mocking communist leaders and the "people's democratic" regime in general. Dagmar Šimková spent fourteen years in prison, her mother seven years, and the punishment included confiscation of all property.

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