Every picture tells a story, season 3, picture 8:
We left the three daughters of Frieda the pianist and Peter the customs officer playing in the snow last week - this next set is dated only 18 months after that, and although it is summer (June 1943) their outlook has darkened considerably. Although aged over 40 and initially deemed indispensable in his role, Peter was drafted to the war in the summer of 1942.
The photos show him on his last holiday from the war. Later the same year he spent some time at Baumholder (near Oberstein) for injury reasons so he will have seen the family briefly on that occasion, but I think the last holiday still marks a poignant occasion as he didn't come back and the girls were left without a father.
For this photoshoot, the family of five were united, but one of them had to take the photo, so we have various subsets. Not sure what kind of camera they had and what happened to it.
Should anybody have any answers to some of the many questions I am raising in this series, please leave a comment here (I'll need to vet it, so it may take a few days before it goes public) or contact me at michaelgrr [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk
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Season 3 so far:
- family holiday
- play time
- fashion show
- bakery to butcher's shop
- the Hamborn brotherhood
- all grown up
- sisters in the snow
- the last holiday
The Mastodon thread for season 3 is here.
You can find Season 2 entries in this thread on Mastodon (complete now!) or via the list at the bottom of the last entry of the season (and also at the bottom of the first entry of this season).
The twitter thread for season 1 is still here. Alternatively, visit the last instalment and find the numbered list of entries at the bottom.
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