Karol Stekly before departure to the frontline, 1943

Marriage in Prague in 1960

Crashed US aircraft during World War II in Italy

truck in flames after aerial bombing of a column carrying Slovak soldiers on the Italian front

Marriage photography of parents of Karol Stekly

portrait photography of witness Karol Stekly

last photo of Karel Steklý in Italy, transport home to Slovakia

executed Mussolini and his companions caught on the run and hung by their feet at a gas station

Karol Steklý sits on unexploded mines, Slovak soldiers destroyed ammunition after the war, which remained on the ground after the fights

From left: Witness´ dad, Ludvík Kožíšek, the father, Václav Kiršner, and an older brother, Jaroslav Beránek, in botchery

Witness's grandfather Ludvík Kožíšek in the bar in 1940s

Václav and Milada Kiršners in 1943

A pig-slaughter in the Kirsner court in the 1940s, Václav Kiršner on the right

Threshing grain in the yard near Kirshners, 1940s, grandfather Ludvík Beránek in the middle, Mr. Fiala (employee) on the right

Witness´ brother, Jaroslav Beránek (on the left), with Mr. Fiala

From the left: Václav Kiršner, Milada Kiršnerová, employees of the butchery, grandad Ludvík Beránek, in the front from left Jaroslav and Mirek Beráneks

Václav Kiršner with his siblings in 1962, from left: Václav, Jiří, Milada, Mirek and Jaroslav

Mother Milada Kiršnerová at the beginning of 1940s

Father Václav Kiršner before WW2

Newlyweds Marie and Václav Kiršners

Siblings Kiršners, from the left: Milada, Jiří and Václav

Witness´ dad, Ludvík Kožíšek

Václav Kiršner pulls her sister Milada on a sled (1946)

Václav Kiršner celebrates his first birtday (1944)

Aunt Průchová and daddy Ludvík Kožíšek