Karel Matuška's aunt, Sister Euforie - member of the Saint Charles Boromeo order, in 1956

Karel Matuška with his mother Gertruda at the wooden pump made by his father Josef

Karel Matuška's birth house in Hať. On the left Karel with his mother Gertruda

Mother Gertruda and father Josef Matuška

Karel Matuska with a calf

Vilibald Plaček on the right, fellow soldier Vojtěch Harnušek with a Model 52 submachine gun, basic military service, Prague 1957

Vilibald Plaček second row second from the left at the forest temporary job in Jeseniky, Vrbno pod Pradědem 1953

Vilibald Plaček second row second from the right, Basic Apprenticeship School, Bílá 1952

Vilibald Plaček on the right, military basic service, Prague 1956

Vilibald Plaček, right, basic military service, Prague 1957

Vilibald Plaček, Corporal of the CSLA, Prague, 26 November 1958

Vilibald Plaček as a recruit on the day of conscription, Hlučín 1955

Vilibald Plaček on the right with his brother Karel, Hať 1955

Vilibald Plaček, Hať 1955

Women and men employed in Rotschield's glasshouse in Šilheřovice. The woman on the left is wearing a "nobility costume", e.i. clothing and shoes. The other women are barefoot in the "farmers´ costume".

On the top right, Mother Gertruda, next to her grandmother Terezie. Below, from left, brothers Emrich and Erhard and Karel Matuška, right, sister Helena

Karel Matuška's aunt Sister Euforie during her service in the hospital in Ostrava Vítkovice

Karel Matuška's aunt Sister Euforie during her service in the hospital in Ostrava Vítkovice

Father Josef Matuska, second from the left, at the construction site in Kiel harbour in 1941

Father Josef Matuška with his accordion and colleagues in Kiel harbour in 1940

Father Josef Matuska, third from the left, in Kiel in June 1940

Karel Matuška / Ostrava / August 2024

Karel Matuška / 1957

Karel Matuška / Ostrava / August 2024

In the middle grandmother of Karel Matuška Terezie Matušková, on the right Karel's mother Gertruda, in the middle cousin Gertruda and aunt Justina. All women dressed in the "farmers´ costume"