Photo 1: My Great-Grandmother (far-left)
    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

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    1. TheMapleKind19 on

      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.

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