Pavla Erbanová with her son, 1970s

In childhood

Zdeněk Susa (right) in the sanatorium with patients

Franz Braun in military clothes with his sons

Walter Plischke during recording in Frýdlant in March 2024

Walter Plischke at the end of 4th grade

Mum Hedwig (left of Dad) with her parents Reinhold and Berta Tandler and siblings - older sister Elfriede (*1908) and younger brothers Emil (*1910) and Ernst (*1911) in front of the house in Fojtka near Liberec, which exists no longer

The parents of the witness - mother Hedwig (1909-1983) and father Franz Josef Plischke (1906-1965), were married on 14 May 1932 in Stráž nad Nisou (then Althabendorf or Starý Habendorf)

Mum's sister Elfriede, a year older, who were carrying cancer medicine to, and her husband Elstner,

Mum's family - the Tandlers from Fojtka (Voitsbach), from left: mum Hedwig, dad Reinhold, brothers Emil and Ernst, sister Elfriede and mum Berta, née Pietsch

The family of the witness´s mother - the Pietsch family in front of their house in Radčice near Liberec

Witness´s mother (first from left) with sister Elfriede and their mother in front of the house in Fojtka, which was demolished after the war

Franz Josef Plischke's dad served in the Czechoslovak Army in Mukachevo, Subcarpathian Rus, in the 112th Artillery Regiment, 1927 - 100 days before the end of the military service

Franz Josef Plischke (fifth from the right above the number 7) served in the Czechoslovak army in Mukachevo, Subcarpathian Rus, 112th Artillery Regiment, 1928 - 60 days until the end of the military service

Ernst Tandler's maternal uncle (sitting on the right) in the Czechoslovak army in Košice, early 1930s

Berta and Reinhold Tandler, maternal grandparents, whom he visited with his mother in the assembly camp in Stráž nad Nisou before their transport to Germany

Grandmother Plischke, who lived with her daughter near Magdeburg in East Germany after the displacement

Witness´s father with his sister, married name Wünsch

The house at 263 Horská Street in the Liberec district of Ruprechtice, where the witness lived with his parents until 1954

Witness Fthe fifth from the left in the Rudolfov primary school in Liberec

Primary school in Rudolfov in Liberec (first from the right, teacher Fibinger and his wife in the middle)

Classes in Rudolfov were often held outdoors

School trip to Máchovo lake

School trip to the Humprecht Castle (the witness with binoculars in the front row)

In the Rudolfov primary school (in the bench on the left)