A tank of liberators, now occupiers with a broken barrel. The inhabitants of Trutnov subsequently removed it from its pedestal and dragged it out of town, August 1968

Barricade from a tank under the viaduct behind Trutnov towards the mountains, August 1968

The citizens first painted the Liberators' tank, later cut off the barrel and finally tore it off its base. The occupation crew repaired the tank and returned it within a few weeks, August 1968.

Smoke from burning tyres billowed through Trutnov in August 1968

Protesters in Trutnov from afar in August 1968

Towards evening the situation calms down and the road becomes passable again, August 1968

Another form of resistance of the inhabitants of Trutnov against the invasion, August 1968

The ZPA chief's cottage was an oasis of at least partial freedom for the witness during normalisation

Jaroslav Jirman at the opening of his photographs in Trutnov in 2018. Photo used with the kind permission of the author Lenka Šálková

Mum of Jaroslav Jirman at his birthday celebration, after 2000

Jaroslav Jirman in 2025

Jaroslav Jirman (second from right) with his mother, sister and brother in Trutnov, 1960s

Jaroslav Jirman in 2025

The Jirman siblings by the Christmas tree, the eldest Jaroslav is standing on the left

My maternal grandfather in the army during the First World War (grandfather marked with a cross in the photo)

Jaroslav Jirman, the father of the witness, in the pharmacy in Trutnov in the 1950s

Cecílie Urbancová in 2025

During filming, 2025

Cecílie Urbancová in her home environment with the creations of her former pupils and her descendants

Cecílie Urbancová's grandmother Justina Kalmusová, née Schubert, in a photograph from the end of the 19th century

Mother Cecílie Vilčová (2nd from left, 3rd row from top) at the business school in Frýdlant nad Ostravicí, 1917

The Kalmus family. Top row: Antonie, Alois, Jaroslava, Josef. Bottom row: Marie, grandmother Justina, grandfather Josef, Leopold, ca. 1920s

Father Lev Vilč on the photo from the Ostrava locomotive depot among other colleagues, ca. 1920s

Father Lev Vilč in a portrait photograph, probably 1920s

Cecílie Urbancová's parents Cecílie and Lev Vilč in a photo, probably just after their wedding in the mid-1920s