The Bubenik family with relatives and an US embassy consultant, Rájov, Christmas1991.

Photograph taken by the State Security during surveillance of Martin Zajíček, with description: "Prague on the 7th of July, 1982, in the afternoon, the object of surveillance is standing at the tram stop at Perštýn."

Thomas Morel (en)

Thomas Morel (en)

Thomas Morel with the students team

The wedding photo of the witness's grandfather František Šimon and Anna Štěpánková, 1904

His grandmother Anna Šimonová, née Štěpánková, circa 1900

Šimon´s farm in Veselá, circa 1910-1912

Confiscation of the Svoboda 12 tractor, 1952

František Šimon with a Lanz Bulldog tractor in exile in Heřmaničky, 1953

Heřmaničky, the witness is the second one from the left, 1953

František Šimon and Emilie Kadavá, a wedding photo, Chleby, March 9, 1963

A village square in Veselá, the parents are in the middle, french Léon Deltour forcely on active service is on the right, 1945

Šimon´s farm in Veselá, beginning of 1950s

Šimon´s horses in front of the farm, 1944

František Šimon (standing first from the left) with his cousins at the funeral of their grandmother Alžběta Kozlová, 1957

His mother Věra (sitting) in Mladá Boleslav folk costume

Witness's father František as a lieutenant, Litoměřice, mid 1920s

The Šimon siblings (on the left Jiří, on the right František) with their parents during the war

The confirmation in Mladá Boleslav with the pastor Čejka, the witness is in the middle row the fourth one from the left, 1947

On this spot, Evžen Švihlík's birth house once stood.

That's all what remained of the Švihlík family house in Rožděstveno.

Evžen Švihlík at a reunion of Volhynian Czechs. 2018

Several members of Evžen Švihlík's family remained in the Soviet Union even after the WWII. They were thus conscripted to the Red Army. There were tens of thousands of Czechs living in the USSR who served in the Red Army.

Several members of Evžen Švihlík's family remained in the Soviet Union even after the WWII. They were thus conscripted to the Red Army. There were tens of thousands of Czechs living in the USSR who served in the Red Army.