My Beautiful Grandma

I hope she had a happy life until the horrors of WW2.
She has such beautiful eyes.

Thank you so much for this comment, Deborah!
I am sure that if she was to tell if her life was happy, she would answer: yes!
In spite of the fact that she endured hardships of two wars.
Because she was tough (she never cried... well... she cried once), she was determined to achieve her goals (she learnt how to read and write by herself from street signboards because she was born in 1903 when schooling priorities for girls were next to none) and at the same time she had a heart of gold so she got along with everybody and was loved. That's what I know from my great-aunt.

She was beautiful and it is nice of you to cherish her memory...

Thank you, Isabel!

Marta - Thank your letting me know more about your lovely grandmother. I am so glad to know that she had many happy years and that she was so well loved.
And how wonderful that, although you were never to know her, your great aunt could share stories about her, so that she could live on in the family's memory.

My great-aunt was an amazing story teller :)
She was born in 1900 and she talked a lot about her (and family) life when she was a kid, a teenager, young girl. Those stories were so vivid that after all those years I catch myself thinking that I saw all of it with my own eyes.

stubbornness is ok ;-))

That's not what I was told ;)

don't believe in everythig you're told ;-)))

Well, I remember being kicked out of two kindergartens consecutively because of my stubbornness, so there's some evidence ;)

that's evidence that kindergarten workers do not like stubbornness. Evidence that kindergarten workers are always right is still lacking... ;-))))

She was all that.
I am sure, you can and should be very proud of her.

I am very proud of her (and my other grandparents too).
Thank you!

War caused such loss and sorrow.
Part of your grandmother lives on in you. The photo captures a moment in time that can be treasured.

You are so right, Scott!
Thanks!

Very nice Marta'.. it's good to keep and remember these older photo's.. I have many which my parents left... // Dj.. UK.

I have only a handful of those pre-WWII. My Grandpa was a hobbyist photographer but almost all his negatives, contact prints and regular prints were lost when the family house was bombed and destroyed during the Warsaw Uprising.

A beautiful and treasured picture. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you, Rosalyn!

Always good to bring back to life these precious memories and people. At least you still have photographs. I wonder what the future generations of our young people will have when every one of their photo snaps is only posted to such places as Ipernity and Facebook. I still have the old photo albums of our childhood 60+ years ago and my mothers album too from her early life in Germany. ~ Having visiting Kraków in Poland, and having had an English X-soldier as a father and a German mother, I feel that I have a little understanding of how life must have been over there in the war days.

Thanks for sharing. Keep safe. Herbert

There is a shelf in my studio where I keep several binders and folders filled with most important photos and documents telling my family history.
I already told my daughter: "It's something to be kept after I am gone and if you ever even think of throwing it away I'll haunt you till the end of your days, I promise!"
Thanks for understanding, Herb!