Marwan Alsolaiman with family and friends, Suwayda, 1983. Top left parents, top right sisters, bottom brother, rest friends

Marwan Alsolaiman (centre) at a Czech language course for foreigners, Dobruška, 1983

Marwan Alsolaiman at the Czech language course for foreigners in Dobruška, 1983

Marwan Alsolaiman at the Strahov Colleges in Prague, 1985/1986

Nephew's wedding in Syria, circa 2000

Marwan Alsolaiman in Suwayda, 2002

Family photo. From right Marwan Alsolaiman, brother and wife, neighbours, Suwayda, 2002

Family photo. From right: brother, sister, sister-in-law, nephew, sister, mother and brother-in-law, Suwayda, 2004

Mother of Marwan Alsolaiman, Suwayda, 2004

Marwan Alsolaiman with nieces in Syria, 2004

Band Ziriab, 2004/2005

Band Ziriab, 2004/2005

The Šád family villa in Jaroměř, opposite the grammar school building in the early 1960s, where Jan Tomsa lived as a child with his parents, together with his grandmother and uncle's family

Father Josef Tomsa as a preacher of the Czechoslovak Church (since 1971 Czechoslovak Hussite Church)

Mum Jarmila Tomsová as a preacher of the Czechoslovak Church, later the Czechoslovak Hussite Church

Jan Tomsa as a child with his grandparents Tomsovi from Bakov

Mother Jarmila Tomsová, née Šádová

Jan Tomsa, about three years old

Father Josef Tomsa

Father Josef Tomsa during his compulsory military service with the Auxiliary Technical Battalions

Jan Tomsa with his mother, the first walk to school, in front of the villa his parents built in Jaroměř Na Ptákách

Uncle Otakar Šáda, legionary and grandfather's brother, in a park in Hořice

The Huss congregation in Jaroměř, where father Josef Tomsa preached