It is the same number Stephen had tattooed on his arm; it is his first glimpse of himself as a child at Auschwitz.
The entire Salinas and Handke families immigrated to Canada in 1948 as refugees fleeing communist China.
It shows my maternal grandfather, Salo Langer, and some other Jews being forced to shovel snow under the direction of the Nazis.
My mother saved photographs of her classmates, and of her best friend Ruta. They all perished in the Holocaust.
These photos are of my late great-grandmother and my late grandfather.