Helena Matrasová (left), Varnsdorf, circa 1996

Grandmother Marie Kapcalová who went to America

Mother Paraska (Paraskieva) Dercová, undated

Husband Ladislav Matras, undated

Sister-in-law Marie Málková-Matrasová, undated

Jarmila Štogrová Doležalová in 2022

Jarmila Štogrová Doležalová in 2022

Lucy Doležalová

Ján Bačkovský

Bohumil Harmonický during the Festival Against Memory Loss which he organized in 2015 and 2016

Bohumil Harmonický (right) with Ondřej Klišík

Bohumil Harmonický in 2024

Bohumil Harmonický in 2024

Festival Against Memory Loss: erecting the scaffolding outside the windows of the Volary Town Hall; they will play music into the windows to disrupt the meeting of the Czech Border Guard Club

Festival Against Memory Loss: Miroslav Němejc is reading the names of people killed on the border

Members of the Czech Border Guard Club who met at the town hall in Volary

Recruits of the Czech corps in Buzuluk, the USSR in Buzuluk; photo developed from a frame of a documentary filmed in Buzuluk

Jan Bačkovský's sons Alexander (elder) and Jan in Odessa during a visit to relatives, 1960

Ján Bačkovský during his visit to Neuville, France in 1968, unveiling of the memorial to the killed

Ján Bačkovský and his second wife Marina, née Krobová; wedding photo from 1955

Ján Bačkovský (third left) at Prague Castle with President Ludvík Svoboda, 1968

Ján Bačkovský, undated

Ján Bačkovský, undated

Ján Bačkovský as an army officer after the war, undated

Ján Bačkovský and Stanislav Stehlík (right), Buzuluk 1942