“This is at home at the Úherce cottage just after my arrival. I wouldn't make it during the transfer to Prague and if I did, in my Prague flat, it was ten stairs up to my bed. Problem solved, then. You can see how my head is swollen due to brain œdema and full of blood clots.”

„Excruciating headache and pain all over my body, almost totaly blind due to severe concussion, deaf on one side because of punctured eardrum, that was just a selection of injuries. I was relieved by cold compresses on my face and nearly constant sleep. I did not smoke, I did not eat and if I did, then only some soup when I was pressured to. I didn't know what I was eating anyway because I lost the sense of smell and taste in the crash. There was an advantage to it – in two months, I lost 15 kilos. I'd take it even today but not for such a price.“

„This is after my second release from hospital when Lukášcarried me on his back to the porch so that I could get a bit of fresh air and change my position from time to time. Despite 12 – 15 different daily meds, I was in severe pain and I could manage only for a few minutes. At leasts he took a picture of my changing colours.“

„Paradoxically, the worst injuries both on the outside and inside of my head and on my spine were caused not only by the crash and fall but by the fact that I was actually wearing a helmet. That's what the constable told me. The intensity of the impact and being thrown in the air tore the helmet off which damaged the ligaments at the sides of my neck and caused further injuries which were avoidable. Especially on my left side where there's another colourful skull fracture behind my ear and bruises all over the neck. These caused the worst pains and even nowadays I suffer like a beast when my neck gets stuck and I end up with meds and neck brace in bed. And, better not to talk about the migraines!“

„It took several months before I started walking, step by step, slowly. My loss of proprioception which was not improving at all did not help, though, and one day, I got dizzy and fell down the stairs. Then, it indeed started to seem that I wouldn't be able to walk ever again.“

"I was in terrible pain even when my leg was in a cast. They suspected embolism but luckily, it was ruled out. The swelling remained, I could only wear house slippers, all other shoes were too narrow. Physiotherapy and exercise, be it in water or on the floor, did not work. I was unable to walk for a long time and I was mentally drained and at the same time, exhausted by the crutches and I was about to give up being able to walk ever again."

"Lukáš devotedly carried me on his back, carrying me there and back like a cat carries kittens. I do not wonder and in retrospect, I understand that after some time, he got fed up with it. Forever."

Rubová strana poslední dochované společné fotografie před zatčením Václava Vachka a Zdeny Vachkové

Věra Vachková 18 měsíců. Václav Vachek měl tuto fotografii u sebe při zatčení. Po úmrtí byla rodině gestapem vrácena.

Věra Vachková 18 měsíců - rub fotografie s popisem. Václav Vachek měl tuto fotografii u sebe při zatčení. Po úmrtí byla rodině gestapem vrácena.

Nadporučík Josef Šandera - velitel výsadku Barium

Četař aspirant Josef Žižka - radista výsadku Barium

četař Tomáš Býček - šifrant skupiny Barium

Josef Šandera s kolegy v Anglii před výsadkem Barium

Posmrtná fotografie Josefa Šandery v nemocnici v Hradci Králové. Byla tajně pořízena docentem Bedrnou, který Josefa Šanderu operoval.

Věra Vachková společně se svým bratrem Václavem v srpnu 1944

Zdeňka Vachková nese urnu s popelem Josefa Šandery. Popel se podařilo jen částečně zachránit a pietně uložit.

Pamětní deska Josefa Šandery na jeho rodném domě v Náměšti nad Oslavou

Valère Gustin in 2019

Petr Hrach, when he signed the Chart and became one of the first signatory of the Chart in Sušice

Petr Hrach at the age of twenty-five

The signatories of Charter 77 and friends - from the left Karel Duda - unjustly accused for sending poisoned letters to officials, and is no longer alive. Petr Hrach in the middle and Václav Luhan on the right, who was forced to leave the former Czechoslovakia to Austria in the late 1970s and early 1980s as part of the secret police ASANACE event.

Christmas in 1957 - little Petřík with great-grandmother, his mother and great-grandparents

Petr Hrach with the former headmaster of the primary school, František Buchta after 1990, who had a major share in the restoration of the commemorative board for the liberation of Sušice by the US military on the façade of the local museum and the placement of the T.G. Masaryk to the park in front of the school, which bore Masaryk´s name thanks to Buchta.

Native house of Petr Hrach, which does not exist anymore. Dear Pueblo - house to blast in 2005.