Jaroslava, Stod 1968, historical photography

Jaroslava's husband MUDr. Karel Dobruský

Jaroslava Dobruská 2019, current photography

Jaroslava Dobruská 2019, current photography

Jaroslava Dobruská 2019, current photography

Jaroslava Dobruská 2019, current photography

Černovnice near Tábor in May 1945

Airborne members in Černovnice near Tábor in May 1945

Anna Sedláková in 2019

Anna Sedláková in 1959, aged 18

Anna Sedláková's home. The family estate in Tis in 1902

Anna Sedláková and her family at the Tis estate. 1940's

With parents and siblings, 1946 (copy)

With her siblings. Around 1950

Home. The estate in Tis in its recent state

Josef and his wife

Vintage photograph of Josef Chroust

A heart and brooch made from a boiled cow bone with a nail file in 1943–4

A wooden brooch with her mother’s prisoner registration number, 1944

An embroidered handkerchief and hairnet – the prisoners used every single leftover cloth clipping, thread, or fibre to make useful items or souvenirs. These are now precious mementos imbued with the lives of their creators.

An autograph book with a picture of her mother’s room, painted by her co-prisoner Olga Klapálková.

Presents that the witness and her brother could send to their mother as children

At the base of Hus Monument in Old Town Square on 17 May 1945 (first row, third from the right). The people are waving to the returned legionaries, who were marching by during a celebratory parade. One of them was Mrs Tůmova’s father, but they did not know of each other’s presence at the time (photo source: Oldřich Smola, “Srdce Prahy v plamenech”, 1946).

Mrs Tůmová’s father (first from the right) marching during the celebratory parade on 17 May 1945

A photo of her first-year class at school. Mrs Tůmová began teaching at Na Mazance School in Prague-Kobylisy in 1954.