In the village of Na Horách
Zdeněk Švéda was born on the 24th of July 1934 in Šumperk. His mother had to be taken fourteen kilometres to the hospital by a horse carriage from a village called Na Horách which falls under the town of Olšany. He spent his early years in the village and today he is the oldest living native-born citizen of the community. Nobody currently resides there but only half a century ago the village was vibrant with life. Zdeněk Švéda remembers all the joys and sorrows of local residents, as well as the war period during which the village belonged to the Reich‘s Sudetenland district (German: Reichsgau Sudetenland). Several people hid there from the Gestapo and partisans were known to stay in the nearby forests. This led to several checks from Gestapo officers. The family lost all their property following a fire caused by a lightning strike in 1948 and had to rebuild their entire estate. In 1960 Zdeněk Švéda married and moved to Horní Studénky. He worked as a driver for the ČSAD company for many years until he retired. In 2017 he and his wife Marie still lived in Horní Studénky.