Pictured here are Salomea Steyer (far left, seated), and her husband Siegfried Steyer (far left, standing). Salomea’s mother, Brandla Waksberg, is seated in the middle.
In 1942, several years after the photograph was taken, Siegfried, Salomea, Brandla, and other family members were murdered by the Nazis. Siegfried and Salomea’s son Stanley (not pictured) survived the Holocaust by using false identity papers and passing as not-Jewish on the “Aryan side” of Warsaw. He is one of the subjects of this exhibition.
A full list of family members in the photograph is as follows:
From left, standing: Siegfried Steyer; Irving (Israel) Waksberg from Chicago (Salomea’s brother); Benjamin (Beniek) Waksberg from Kielce (Salomea’s brother); Isidor Kahane (Salomea’s brother-in-law)
From left, seated: Salomea (Salcia, Sara) Steyer; Brandla Rembiszewski-Waksberg (Salomea’s mother); Frania Waksberg-Kahane (Salomea’s sister).