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Hadn’t seen this photo before yesterday. My mom is on the right, her aunt and uncle next to her (who I saw many times when I was a child). Her mom in the middle, her dad on the left. Her dad was killed early in the war. Her brother, Ben, is on the upper left. He was killed in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima.

I'm guessing this photo is from just before 1940, which would make my mom about nine. I don’t know the man in the back middle, and I don’t know the kids. They would all be in for some extremely difficult times over the next several years, mostly due to criminally poor leadership of their country.