We, if we don‘t have a guardian angel and a gendarme above us, we‘re not able to do anything.
Marie Hlidkova was born on September 7, 1937 in Stříbrná Skalice, about 40 kilometers from Prague, then as Marie Nešporová. Her two cousins living in America were U.S. Army soldiers during the liberation of Czechoslovakia. She experienced the liberation of Stříbrná Skalice by the Red Army and the reside of Soviet soldiers in the village in the buildings of a former mill and Roman Catholic rectory. All her life she worked in Sázava glassmakers, occasionally in hospitality and other jobs in the area. She experienced the strengthening and expansion of the road between Stříbrná Skalice and Sázava, as well as the construction of an outdoor hockey stadium in Stříbrná Skalice and other changes of the village. To this day (2021) she lives in his birthplace in Stříbrná Skalice.