The witness in the Jizerské Mountains, circa 1945

The witness as a high-school graduate, May 1960

With grandmother Oldřiška Knappová in the garden in Rudná, in front of the woodshed that the grandfather converted into a "laboratory" for his grandson

Scout troop from Střelecký Island, Pavel Beneš is second right, 1946/1947

Pavel Beneš in Hodky, Světlá pod Ještědem, 1942

Pavel Beneš in 1944 with the family's housemaid Zdeňka

Pavel Beneš in the spring of 1943

Pavel Beneš in the 1970s

Pavel Beneš in 2023

František Severa (the child at bottom left) with his mother's family in Bergheim, West Germany, before they returned to Bohemia

František Severa in Augsburg where he and his mother had to leave after the Germans were deported in 1950

The Severa family's house where the witness's mother hid after the deportation of teh Germans

František Severa's great-grandfather's house in Rudné opposite the cemetery in the valley

Hitlerjugend camp in Rudné in Krušné Mountains, from František Severa's archive

Period photos of Rudné (Trinksaifen) from witness František Severa's archive

František Severa with his parents after he and his mother had returned to Rudné

František Severa in his childhood

Jana Malá, Josef Malý, Marie Malá, Zora Malá and Vítězslav Malý (bottom), circa 1957-58

Warsaw Pact troops' invasion in Liberec on 21 August 1968. Photo by M. Mělnický

Warsaw Pact troops' invasion on 21 August 1968. Photo by M. Mělnický

Marie Malá and Josef Malý's wedding photo, 1946

Mother Vlastimila Malá

Tram ticket of grandfather, František Knapp

With grandparents Oldřiška and František Knapp