The Kassels were a family of comfortably well-off Lithuanian Jews who hid 43 of their family photographs in the attic of the large wooden house they owned in Kaunas some time before being forced into the Kovno Ghetto, where it’s almost certain they later perished. Among the collection of fascinating black and white prints that they saved is this wonderful 14cm x 10cm group portrait featuring 100 or so unidentified people of all ages, gathered together on the steps of the Kursaal building in the spa town of Bad Brückenau in northwestern Bavaria during what was almost certainly some kind of family celebration on Sunday July 3, 1921. Discovered by the late Nijolė Kučinskaitė (1943-2020), whose parents moved into the house after the Kassels were evicted, the photographs were donated to the International Centre for Litvak Photography, after which a small group of volunteers in Israel, Lithuania and Switzerland were tasked with trying to find out whatever they could about the family, the ongoing results of which can be found here. If you happen to know anyone with the name Kassel who has any connection with Jewish life and culture in pre-Second World War Europe, please share this page with them and ask them to get in touch. As with the similar Lost & Found project, the ultimate aim is to find surviving relatives of the original Kaunas family to whom the photographs can be returned to.