The family stands erect, proud of its European history, before the Old World collapsed. They stand eternally together. A warm afternoon light covers the son in the middle as his tall father protects him in front. The young children, in short horizontal boxes, died early in infancy before the State was formed, when children died from the common cold or a childhood disease wreaking havoc upon their young, anguished parents.
Only the mother, slightly set apart, turns away. Her cracked heart reveals the suffering of her life, the hardship of her youth, from too much loss at too early an age, from everything that she knew and held dear.