Náves in Vranové Lhota, where May 7, 1945 German unit lined up all the men in the village that shoots

A village square in Vranová Lhota, where a German unit lined up all the men in the village for execution by shooting on May 7, 1945

Monument to the victims of the 1st and 2nd World War in Vranová Lhota

Monument to victims of the 1st and 2nd World War in Vranové Lhota

Wartime photos of men whom the Germans planned to shoot on 7 May 1945 in Vranová Lhota. Finally they shot Otto Krejci and Frantisek Svec, for whom the photographer purposely created blank spaces.

A school in Vranová Lhota, where the police station was located during the war

A school in Vranová Lhota, where the police station was located during the war

Věrka (second from the left) in Iran

Richard Heim (left) with four irans

Burnt out part of the Town Hall, Old Town Square, Prague, May 1945

Kralupy after the air raid, March 1945

First teaching post, 3rd class in Cheb, 1954

Family Vackova (left sister Mary, Vaclav, mother, father and sister Lenka)

Tableau of the Litomerice seminar (Vaclav Vacek in the middle row first left), 1975

Vaclav Vacek and his sister Mary in 1947

Vaclav Vacek with sisters Lenka and Mary in 1950s

Václav Vacek at a creche made by his granddad Josef Faltejsek

Václav Vacek

Václav Vacek

Václav Vacek as a child

Václav Vacek in 1950s

Václav Vacek in 2015

Václav Vacek in 1970s

Václav Vacek in 1960s

Václav Vacek