Witness's mother Emilie née Rudolfová 1909, photographed in the 1930s

Witness's mother Emilie with classmates from the housekeeping school, standing at right in the middle; turn of the 1920s and 1930s

Witness's maternal grandfather František Rudolf, a farmer and the owner of a brickyard in Světlá by Česká Skalice; died in 1946

Jiří Zedníček with his mother Emilie on the farm during World War II

Mother Emilie holding a Noriker horse on the witness family's farm

Family gathering during Christmas. Witness's father Stanislav Zedníček at the head, with mother Emilie seated second right, and grandmother Anna behind her

The final harvest home festivity on Zedníček's farm before its confiscation in 1950

Witness's paternal grandfather Viktorin František Zedníček, born in 1861 in Vysoké Mýto, the founder of the farm; photographed in 1916

Jiří Zedníček with his first "weapon", 1940s

The Zedníček brothers when their father was in prison. The eldest Stanislav (born 1934), the middle Jiří (born 1939) and the youngest Jan (born 1946)

Mother Emilie's funeral in St Lawrence's Church in Vysoké Mýto, February 1951. The sons are at the centre, with Jiří Zedníček standing closest to the photographer

The funeral procession from St. Lawrence's Church past the Evangelical Church to the cemetery. The photo shows how long it was. When the coffin passed through the cemetery gate, the final attendees were still lining up by the church, making the procession about one kilometre long. Local grammar school teacher Karel Fink noted: "Her funeral was a magnificent manifestation of the respect and love that the broadest strata of Vysoké Mýto people felt towards the deceased."

The front of the funeral procession going to the cemetery, with the coffin driven by two horses in the background. Emilie Zedníčková's husband, held in a communist prison at the time, was not released for her funeral in February 1952.

Enterment in the family tomb in Vysoké Mýto. The nuns who spent her last moments with Emilie Zedníčková at her bedside wrote a poem immediately after her death: "A brave woman, who can find? Far above jewels she is worth! She opens her hand to the poor, Shows her palms to the poor, Her garment is her influence and her honour, With a smile she looks towards the future!"

The sons are growing up while Stanislav Zedníček is still in prison. This is one of the photos they sent to their father for Christmas

Zedníček's farm before nationalization in the winter of 1946

General view of the Zedníček farm and adjacent buildings before nationalisation

The ruined farm after nationalisation, 1970s

The farm after nationalisation, 1970s

Jiří Zedníček, 2020

Ladislav Otruba in his office in his stone workshop, 2025

Ladislav Otruba in 2025

Ladislav Otruba in 2025

Otruba stoneworks in Plumlov

Ladislav Otruba with wife Milada and children Marek, Gabriela and Karel, circa 1980