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Pre-war Poland, 1936, my maternal ancestral home. A rural, small farm holding in southern Poland, a place in time that no longer exists, I believe, or I have no way of knowing. The photograph depicts my Great Grandmother, seated amongst her remaining family. She was 98 at this time. On the left is her daughter Zofia, who remained in Poland whilst the other brothers and sisters went to America. They are surrounded by 3 of Zofia's 6 children. The man standing is a visitor from the US. I hardly know anything about my Great Grandmother, except that she was a midwife and lived to be 100 years old! This map of lost places depicts the abundance that was produced on the family holding, the goods and produce that sustained the family and was sold at market in the nearby town. Barley, buckwheat, eggs, plums, pears, apples, honey were some of the crops. It was a hard life filled with work, but not without it's beauty. I believe it is a lost way of life, gone with the changes in time. In 1939, the Nazi's invaded Poland. In many of the closest towns near this, my ancestral homeland, all of the Jewish population was murdered. My family was Catholic, but I have no way of knowing what became of them. Many Poles were sent to work camps, displaced, or joined the strong resistance movement. What happened to Zofia and her husband and the farm, I hope to discover one day. I do know that mercifully my Great Grandmother did not live to witness the upheaval.
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