Youth from Stěpanovka escorting a friend to the army in 1952

Josef Eibisch, great-grandfather, killed on the Italian front, deployed in Boxgrün, Croatia

Mother's family house in Zálesí near Jáchymov, 1975

Ludvík Jersák published a book about the history of the Czech settlement and Stěpánovka in 2004

The Štěpánovka was located in the very vicinity of the military territory that belonged to the armaments factory in Chapajevsk

The current form of the pond system at Stěpánovka was established in 1949

Only a hut and beehives remain on the site of Stěpánovka

Ludvík Jersák at the grave of his parents

Ludvík Jersák celebrates sixty years of life together with his wife, 2019

Ludvík Jersák in Čapajevsk in 2019

The last permanent inhabitant of Stěpánovka left in 1986

Accordionist Ludvík Jersák shortly after the war

With his older brother Rudolf and parents Rudolf and Jindřiška, 1971

With friends at the game "West (at least) at the cottage", 1972

Jindřich Tomášek with his brother Rudolf, three years older, 1964

With older brother Rudolf and grandfather, 1964

Coal Holidays in Medvědín, 1977

Herbert Kisza in the pedal car his dad made for him and his colleagues

Herbert Kisza (left) on a family walk to Kocobinec

Herbert Kisza (right) with a Polish friend, mid-1940s

Herbert Kisza in the family garden, circa 1945

Herbert Kisza on holidays, Podobora, 1960

Herbert Kisza aged 3 to 5 months, 1943

Herbert Kisza in the forest near Podobora

Interior of the U Batýra Gallery, 2022