Jindřich Machala (first from the right) with his brothers Svatopluk and Jaromír, circa 1970

Jindřich Machala (first from the right) with his brothers, mother, and her third husband, circa 1970

Jindřich Machala’s grandparents’ cottage in Wallachian isolation

The First of May on the square in Libavá, 1947

Conscripts in front of the Burgath Hotel in Libavá, Second World War

Czechoslovak garrison command in Libavá, 1987

Jindřich Machala with Hans Schiffner, a native of the Libavsko region, Stará Voda 2016

Kuttler the watchmaker in Libavá, before the Second World War

The expelled Czech-German Zips family, Libavá

Jindřich Machala's mother and father (first and second from the left) with his parents, grandmother, and aunts, Hovězí

Jindřich Machala's father with his sister, Hovězí

Staff of the municipal school, Libavá, 1933

Festival in Stará Voda

Soviet officers, Libavá

Soviet family on the square in Libavá

Soviet barracks near the church, Libavá

Soviet unit on Smilovská Street, Libavá

Soviet soldiers on their platform, Libavá

The expelled Schiffner family, Stará Voda

Jindřich Machala's uncle Jaroslav Maňák (first from the left), Nové Oldřůvky, 1946

Communist and partisan Jaroslav Maňák, circa 1946

Remains of a rocket silo, the so-called northern point, Libavá military area

Ludmila Káňová, 2018

Ludmila Káňová, 2018

Ludmila Káňová, 2018