Stanislav Křeček in 2025

Stanislav Křeček during the interview for the Stories of Our Neighbours project

Stanislav Křeček with the team from the Stories of Our Neighbours project

Jiří Zedníček, 2020

The family farm

Scouts of Vysoké Mýto

Jiří Zedníček narrates

Jiří Zedníček with pupils in front of the regional museum

Witness's father Stanislav Zedníček (né 7 October 1904) in Vysoké Mýto, leaving for his military service

Witness's father Stanislav Zedníček riding one of his beloved horses, 1930s

Witness's father Stanislav Zedníček in the legions, bottom right

Witness's father Stanislav Zedníček show jumping a horse, his favourite sport; early 1930s

Witness's father Stanislav Zedníček holding a horse during the gymnastic exercise of jumping across a horse, turn of the 1920s and 1930s

Witness's father Stanislav Zedníček just before entering the prison following a show trial in 1950

Witness's mother Emilie née Rudolfová 1909, photographed in the 1930s

Witness's mother Emilie with classmates from the housekeeping school, standing at right in the middle; turn of the 1920s and 1930s

Witness's maternal grandfather František Rudolf, a farmer and the owner of a brickyard in Světlá by Česká Skalice; died in 1946

Jiří Zedníček with his mother Emilie on the farm during World War II

Mother Emilie holding a Noriker horse on the witness family's farm

Family gathering during Christmas. Witness's father Stanislav Zedníček at the head, with mother Emilie seated second right, and grandmother Anna behind her

The final harvest home festivity on Zedníček's farm before its confiscation in 1950

Witness's paternal grandfather Viktorin František Zedníček, born in 1861 in Vysoké Mýto, the founder of the farm; photographed in 1916

Jiří Zedníček with his first "weapon", 1940s

The Zedníček brothers when their father was in prison. The eldest Stanislav (born 1934), the middle Jiří (born 1939) and the youngest Jan (born 1946)

Mother Emilie's funeral in St Lawrence's Church in Vysoké Mýto, February 1951. The sons are at the centre, with Jiří Zedníček standing closest to the photographer