Pupil team Stories of Our Neighbors

Jiří Poslední in 2022

Jiří Poslední in 1978

Entrance to the Chotěšov monastery in the 1990's

Chotěšov monastery in the 1990's

Chotěšov monastery in the 1990's

Altar in the Chotěšov monastery. 1990's

Chotěšov monastery in the 1990's

Encounter with former soldiers from the unit that was garrisoned in the monastery. 2004

František Chmelař with the Memory of the Nations team

František Chmelař

A moment from the life of the Krouz family in the 1950s in Chotěšov near Podbořany

A snap from the life of the Krouz family in the 1950s in Chotěšov near Podbořany

A snap from the life of the Krouz family in the 1950s in Chotěšov near Podbořany

Grandmother Růženka Krouzová with her mother Julia Herzigová in front of her house in Jesenice, 1930s

From the left: paternal grandmother Růženka (owner of haberdashery in Jesenice), mother Anna, great-grandmother Julie Herzigová

František Cír, the witness's uncle and godfather, was captured by Red Army soldiers during the fighting. Died in a Soviet POW camp on December 24, 1944 of starvation

Great-grandmother Albína Círová with her eldest daughter Anna, visiting from exile in the GDR, 1954

From the left: great-grandmother Albína Círová, mother Anna (standing in the back row), aunt Markéta and great-grandfather the blacksmith Cír, 1940

His wife Ludmila and daughter Liduška recultivating the garden behind the pharmacy, 1975

First from the right Antonín Cír, third from the left mother Anna Círová, back row – cousin Josef and witness Rudolf Krouza, great-grandmother Albína Círová's birthday celebration, 1957

His father Rudolf Krouza Sr., 1938

Father Rudolf Krouza (in the middle) with friends in Czechoslovak artillery regiment in Tábor, 1936

Working in the great-grandfather's forge (with a sledgehammer), 1929

Uncle, forger Antonín Cír, 1929