Surely nothing will happen to me if I tell you my story?
Astrid Kostelníková was born in 1943 in Třinec. The father, Róbert Zwelling, worked as a pharmacist. Astrid has three siblings. She is the youngest of them. After the war, they fled back to the territory of Slovakia. After war, they were interned in the camp in Nováky. From there the family went home to Liptovský Mikuláš. Witness graduated from the chemical industry school in Svit. She got married in 1962. After marriage, she lived in Levoča. She started working as a teacher in the dormitory of the Secondary Medical School. She studied pedagogy by distance learning at the University of Prešov. When visually impaired children started attending the school, she also studied special pedagogy. She also earned a doctorate from it at Comenius University. After the revolution, she went into early retirement. She took care of her mother and mother-in-law. She started working as a tourist guide in Levoča. He still does it today. He has three sons. The oldest lives in Canada, the younger in Bratislava and the youngest in Levoča. Astrid tries to clear her father‘s name.