The triumphant return of the golden team from the World Championship in Katowice 1976. Jiří Holeček on the left, the other two cups are held by (from left) Jiří Holík and František Pospíšil

Soviet forward Vladimir Yakushev did not challenge goalie Jiří Holeček. Off the ice, the two got along like good friends, the picture is from the 1970s

Jiří Holeček's goalie warm-up in the 1970s shows his huge range of motion

Hiří Holeček during the training of the national team in the first half of the 1970s

Jiří Holeček as World and European Champion at the 1972 World Championships in Prague

Olha Rubanovska during the interview, 2024

Olha Rubanovska during the interview, 2024

Františka Veselá (girl with doll) with children from the farm (the boy on the left is Eduard Fifek, he died during the Slovak National Uprising)

A house in the grounds of the farm where Františka Veselá's family lived in Český Těšín

Františka Veselá with her dog Alík, who had to be left in Těšín

Father of Františka Veselá during harvest with a locomobile

Little Františka with her mother

With her brother, circa 1942

Františka Veselá

Wedding photo of Alena Chyská (1954)

Alena Chyská at medical school (1952)

Alena Chyská with parents

Alena Chyská in 1952

Alena Chyská with her brother and parents in Bilíchov (1938)

Alena Chyská with her brother Jiří (1939)

Vladimír Hamal in the centre of the saxophone section of the Krab Orchestra in Přerov, 1950s

Detail from Vladimír Hamal and wife Eva's wedding photo, 1950

Vladimír Hamal with his partner Olga, 1975

Vladimír Hamal in Berlin, 1944

Vladimír Hamal, Prague, 1946