Lída as a three-year-old

With her mother and brother, 1950s

With her brother, Pepíček, visiting a fair, 1950s

Lída at the South Bohemian Theatre

Lída attending Wolker's Prostějov

Lída (second from the left) in the Garden Party, 1964

A graduation photo (L. R. in the second row, fourth from the left), 1965

With her father, Zdeněk Horský, 1960s

Living in the Větrník Halls of Residence, the late 1960s

Josef Rakušan, Lída Rakušanová's future husband, summer of 1968

Lída shortly after arriving in Paris, autumn of 1968

With Josef in Frankfurt am Main, 1969

Marrying Josef, July 1969

Lída wearing a wig, 1972

In Munich – with Josef and Sláva and Eva Volný

Karel Kryl playing, L. R. in the back at the window

Entrance to the Radio Free Europe in Munich

Master Control of RSE Newsrooms, 1970s

Telexes from news agencies in RFE, 1970s

With her mother, Venice, 1977

With her mother and a four-years-old Lucy, maybe the last time her mother visited them in the West, the late 1970s

Lucie Rakušanová in front of a cottage in the Bavarian Forest she just bought, 1979

Lída Rakušanová in the late 1970s/early 1980s

From the left Karol Belák, L. R., Milan Schulz, Sláva Volný, 1983

Lída Rakušanová in 'Radio Free Europe' newsroom