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Photo 2: My Great-Grandmother (2nd from left)
Photo 3: My Great-Grandmother
Photo 4: My Great-Uncle
Photo 5: My Great-Uncle, a violinist as part of the Sam Wooding Orchestra
Photo 6: My Great-Uncle, a violinist as part of the Sam Wooding Orchestra
Photo 7: My Grandfather and his Mother when he signed up for WW2 (he joined the entertainment corps of the British army, playing jazz violin like his family before him)
Photo 8: My Grandfather and Grandmother (a German Jew he met in Hamburg during WW2) on their wedding day, alongside their mothers
Photo 9: Grandfather and Grandmother (I called them ‘Opa’ and ‘Oma’) on their wedding day
Photo 10: My Dad, an unidentified ‘jazz’ friend of my Great-Grandmother, and my Opa
Photo 11: My Opa playing jazz violin in a London pub and desperately trying to resist the allure of a free beer
Photo 12: My Dad, his sisters, and my Oma with a lit cigarette
Photo 13: My Opa at the back, my Oma at the front, my Dad on the right with Afro, and Mabel Mercer to his left with her hand on his shoulder
Photo 14: Me and my Dad
Photo 14: Me and my Opa
by Radiant-Cup-2089
1 Comment
These are incredible! What a beautiful family. Do you know more about how your opa met your opa? I imagine she and her mother went through a lot during the war.