Auschwitz (photo by Jindřich Buxbaum).

Pupil diary from the people’s music school (c. 1950s).

Dad’s death certificate – required by the authorities for Mum to claim a widow’s pension. She still believed that Dad would come back.

Me marrying Irena (1968).

Married couple – Irena and Fedor (late 1960s).

Book signing of my son Robert and Martin (Loony) Jirous (early 21st century).

With my grandson Samuel (c. 2014).

On the grandstand (Bratislava 1990).

First November demonstration in Bratislava (1989).

With Slovak nationalists in early 1990.

The nationalists are mobilising (Bratislava, February 1990).

Marián Čalfa and the leadership of Public Against Violence (1989).

Press conference before the first free elections (Bratislava 1990).

Shooting of the film Krátká dlouhá cesta (Short Long Journey, Germany 2008 – photo by Miro Švolík).

In Terezín (place of birth, 2008 – photo by Miro Švolík).

A photo (by Vladimír Šimíček 2017).

On holiday with my wife Irena (c. 2012).

From Mum’s autobiography (from the darkest times of Communism).

Židovská (Jewish) Street – the palace steps (Schlossgrundgasse), Bratislava.

Dr. Ing. Vilém Klíma, 1936.

Mum and dad, 1963.

Dad, 1966.

1983

Twelve-year-old Ivan Klíma

Ivan Klíma, London, 1968