Helena Steyer (second from right), grew up in the Polish town of Kielce with her parents and older brother, Stanley. Here, she and her friends are vacationing in Czarniecka Góra, a village north of Kielce.

Helena went on to become a journalist by profession. She married a young, Jewish businessman named David Gdanski, and the couple soon had a baby. In 1944, Helena, David, and their 3-year-old daughter, Nina, were all murdered by the Nazis.

The young man to Helena’s right in the photograph above, Sinai Lichter, immigrated to British-mandate Palestine. The picture survived the war in his possession. Many years later, Sinai Lichter reunited with Stanley Steyer in Israel. Stanley introduced Sinai to his daughter, Helen Steyer, named after Stanley’s sister, and Sinai’s old friend: Helena.