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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluumz, post: 61560, member: 649&quot;]Thanks for the welcome!</p><p><br /></p><p>And it&#039;s Poland, not Portland (it wasn&#039;t a typo, lol). While I don&#039;t know just where the photo studio was located, Irena and Alina were born and raised in the country of Poland. They were from a wealthy family and may have traveled. On a sobering side note, many years later Alina was killed in Auschwitz. Irena (my grandmother) lived through Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Ravensbruk. We are not of Jewish descent but my family was active in the resistance and were teachers and descendents of the nobles, considered <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligentsia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligentsia" rel="nofollow">the &quot;intelligentsia&quot;</a>.</p><p>The following is a photo of my grandmother when she visited us in the USA (I&#039;m the little blond girl), and also a photo from 1920 of Irena and my grandfather Stefan, around the time of their marriage. (He was taken away early in the war and died in a prison in Radom.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]15811[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]15812[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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