Grandmother Zofia (right) in front of house No. 27 in the former Strausseney (now Pstrążna)

Wedding of Zofia Flousek from Bukowina and Reinhold Zwikirsch from Strausseney (today Pstrążna)

The house of grandparents Františka and August Flousek's in Bukowina, which they had to leave after the war

Grandfather August Flousek at beehives

Six children of Zofia and Reinhold Zwikirsch: from right, the eldest Elzbieta (mother of the witness), Reinhold, Irmgarda, Ruth, Hubert and Karel

Six children of Zofia and Reinhold Zwikirsch in front of the church in Pstrążna (mother of the witness at the top, the eldest)

Witness´s mother on her horse Kaštan (Chestnut) in front of her house in Pstrążna

House of the Zwikirsch family in Pstrążna

The village of Pstrążna (originally called Stroužné, later Strausseney and Straußdörfel)

Farming in Pstrążná - the inhabitants made their living by farming on small fields and pastures

The Felsenhotel (Rock Hotel) in Bukowina, built in 1903, served the tourists of the Table Mountains. A big attraction were the carriages that brought tourists from the spa town of Kudowa. In 1922 it became a mission house (Missionshaus) for evangelical missionaries, in the 1950s the house was taken over by the medical institute in Wroclaw, which established here first a children's sanatorium for the treatment of respiratory diseases and since 1990 the institute for the treatment of hematological diseases Orlik

Witness in her mother's arms in 1968

Pre-war postcard from Strausseney

Pastor Martin Hoffmann, who came to Strausseney in 1933, had to enlist in the Wehrmacht in 1943, where he worked as an interpreter. He deserted in 1944 and made his way to Prague, where after the war he became a member of the committee that supported the incorporation of Kladsko (Kłodzko) into Czechoslovakia. The pastor organized a referendum, for which the Polish authorities arrested him and he spent six months in prison in Wroclaw, Kłodzko and Warsaw. He was released after the intervention of Czechoslovak Prime Minister Zdeněk Fierlinger. He then worked in Šonov in Bohemia and from 1952 in the German parish of Bisses.

Pastor Hoffmann's visit to Pstrążna in 1956 (Pastor Hoffmann never forgot the parish in Pstrążna and visited it several times)

Pastor Hoffmann's visit to Pstrążna in 1956 (Pastor Hoffmann never forgot the parish in Pstrążna and visited it several times)

Pastor Hoffmann's 1999 visit to Pstrążna (pastor with bandaged hand), during which he met with Pastor Jablonski

The evangelical pastor Josef Arnošt Bergman (*1798, Zápudov †︎ 1877, Coriscana, Texas, USA), who worked in Strouzne (Strausseney) from the summer of 1830 to October 1849

The site of the first evangelical church in Strouzne (Strausseney), built by its inhabitants

The stone evangelical church in Pstrążna, built in 1848 thanks to Pastor Bergman

Evangelical church in Pstrążna in 2022

Evangelical church in Pstrążna in 2022

Evangelical church in Pstrążna in 2022

Evangelical church in Pstrążna in 2022

Cemetery at the church in Pstrążna in 2022