Blogpost 5: A Photo and its Story

Hi, in this post you will choose a photo (picture) that is meaningful to you. It can be a family photo, or another kind of photo. Write abour why it interests you, what it means to you, and anything else you want to say. This post has a 150-word minimum.

This is a photo of mom mom and grandmother taken in about 1944...so my mother was 2 years old. It was taken at a very bad time in history--during World War II. It was taken in Germany, so in the villain country in that part of history. At that time my grandfather was away in the war, and my grandmother was sometimes not sure if he was alive (he survived) because contact was often difficult. They had lost their apartment because of bombing in Hamburg, Germany about a year before, and they were living as refugees in the countryside, in a small village. My grandmother had to adjust to the new situation: living in a room belonging to other people who really didn't want her there. She had to go to the forest to chop down trees for wood for fire for heat, she had to cook big quantities of syrup, and other things that were maybe a little "mideaval." My mom was a little girl, so she didn't experience this in the same way. Yet, in the photo they both look happy and fine. Sometimes photos don't tell us everything that is actually happening at that time: A happy photo from a dark and tragic time in history.