A photo of two-year-old Alma Mestlová which her mother Anna Krtová sent to her grandmother Alma Dressing in America

Alma Mestlová's father Ernest Plouff

Mr and Mrs Mestls' adopted daughters Gabriela and Markéta

Alma Mestlová's father Ernest Plouff

Alma Mestlová's father Ernest Plouff when she visited him in America in 2016

Alma Mestlová with her father

Ernest Plouff waiting to meet his daughter Alma Mestlová for the first time at the airport in Alabama

Parents' Václav Mestl and Anna Mestlová (née Krtová's) wedding photo

Alma Mestlová's mother with American soldiers

Václav Nehasil, 2025

Václav Nehasil, 1986

Václav Nehasil's maternal grandparents; Matěj Rambousek, head teacher at the evangelical school, and Anna Rambousková, late 1930s

Václav Nehasil's mother Jaroslava Hazlbachová-Nehasilová, 1945

Václav Nehasil's parents Jaroslava Hazlbachová-Nehasilová and Václav Nehasil, 1951

Václav Nehasil (right) with grandfather Václav Hazlbach, 1961

With cousin Jitka Macháčková, early 1960s

With brother Vladimír Nehasil, 1969

In seventh grade, late 1960s

Václav Nehasil (asterisk) as a Pioneer leader, 1970s

Václav Nehasil (asterisk) with a Pioneer troop on a trip, 1975

With Cubs in a camp, 1974

Václav Nehasil, mid-1970s

Václav nehasil (asterisk) during the first sleep-over at the troop hut in Jiřičky near Pelhřimov, 1980

Václav Nehasil working on his thesis, 1981

Václav Nehasil practicing judo, 1980s