One hundred and two unidentified people of all ages pose on the steps of the Kursaalgebäude in the Bavarian spa town of Bad Brückenau. The handwritten date, Sunday July 3, 1921, has been added to the original negative by the equally anonymous photographer. Nothing more is known about the image, except that it was discovered along with 42 other decaying photographs, 1,200 kilometres away from where it was taken in the attic of a large wooden house in Kaunas in 2016, and that the family that originally owned it, the Kassels, lived in the building until they vanished from history after being forced into the Kovno Ghetto in August 1941.
To view all 43 photographs, and to learn more about the family that originally owned them, click here. If you think that you might know something that could help lead to the return of the photographs to any surviving descendants of the Kassels, who are known to have had close family members in Switzerland, the United States, South Africa and Mozambique, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
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