Bohuslav Halva

Mother Emilie Čejchanová, born in 1896

Father Adolf Pinkava, born in Dolní Radechová in 1891. He lost both parents at age four and was raised by a neighbour in a shepherd’s cabin.

Josef Pinkava’s native house, which his parents bought from grandmother in Končiny in 1922. His father built the barn.

Students in the first to fifth class in Zábrodí in 1935. Witness Josef Pinkava is in the centre of the second bottom row

A snapshot from Theodor Böhm’s print shop in Nové Město nad Metují before its nationalisation

Josef Pinkava during studies and work in Prague, early 1950s

Josef Pinkava during studies and work in Prague, early 1950s

Josef Pinkava harvesting timber in Jestřebí Mountains, late World War II

Josef Pinkava in 2018, receiving the Červený Kostelec Town Award for his “attitude to work and the willingness to help, and his active part in the creation of various regional publications (a history of the Zábrodí community and a collection of memoirs of the legionnaires from Červený Kostelec from 1914–1920 titled Byli u toho (They Were There)). He is a model and an inspiration to others.”

Josef Pinkava in Velké Poříčí in 2023

Josef Pinkava in Velké Poříčí in 2023

Olga Vitvarová, 2023

Olga Vitvarová, 2023

Grandmother Zdeňka, married Hudečková

Grandma Zdeňka with her husband and her parents (Olga's great-grandparents)

View of part of the monastery (courtyard) in Černuc, which was bought by Zdeněk Pěknic

Courtyard in Černuc

JZD (Unified agricultural cooperative) Máj, formerly a farm in Černuc, which belonged to the Hudečeks

With her husband Jaromír Vitvar in a wedding photo, 1955

Zdeněk Hudeček, missing since 1955

Husband Jaromír Vitvar

Olga Vitvarová, 1955

Luboš Starý in 2023

Luboš Starý in 2023