With sister Jarča, Černilov, ca. 1930

Jaroslava (sister of the witnes) and Václav Vaněk, 1930s

With neighbourhood children on a favourite swing, Václav Vaněk in front, Černilov, the late 1920s

From left: sister Jarmila, mother Klárka and Václav, at the school in Věkoš, where they lived for a short time (the witnesses' father was the head teacher there), 1930s

With friends at the Elbe, Václav Vaněk with a butterfly, the 1940s

On the column on the left, Václav Vaněk, on the right, his uncle Jarka Hoffman, 1940s

With friends from his studies in Prague, Václav Vaněk on the left, after 1945

On a trip in the Šárecké valley, Václav Vaněk on the right, after 1945

Václav Vaněk on a motorcycle, Hodkovice, ca. 1950

In military training, with the automobile army, Slovakia, in the 1950s

NCO school of the 6th Regiment at their wagons, Václav Vaněk Sr. standing in front of a wagon under an arrow, April 1918

Office of the Officers' School in Kyštym, Václav Vaněk Sr. on the far left

The office in the "těpluška" - the insulated wagon, Václav Vaněk st. on the far left

Typical legionary armoured train

Destroyed bridge on the Onon river, Siberian main road

The original monument to the fallen Czechoslovak Legionnaires in Chelyabinsk, built with citizens' money, later destroyed by the Communists

Father of the witness, Václav Vanek, teacher and legionnaire, ca. late 1920s

Father of the witness, Václav Vanek, teacher and legionnaire, ca. late 1920s

Václav Vaněk with grandchildren

With his wife Jarmila

Lucie Janotová, 1964

Lucie Janotová in 2021

Lucie Čurdová with her sister Irena, 1930s

Lucie Čurdová, about 6 years old, 1938

The Čurda family, her parents and sister, witness second from the left, 1940s