The family photograph with Austrian soldiers The family photograph with Austrian soldiers

The group photograph, according to Emilia Leibel in interviews, taken in 1915 during the Passover holiday. Secondary print. Ozjasz Grossbart (seated in the middle of the table), Emilia Leibel's grandfather, invited Austrian soldiers of Jewish descent, who were in a hospital organized in a nearby monastery, to celebrate together. One of the soldiers is wearing an armband with a red cross on his sleeve. Women are also visible in the photograph. One of them, wearing an apron, seems to have stopped for the moment of taking the photograph while setting the table. This is the mother of Emilia Leibel, who: she was always indignant that she was captured at the moment when she was holding a plate in her hand (Maria Kłańska's interview ,,Wspomnienia Żydówki krakowskiej'' [Memories of a Jewish Woman from Kraków], Kraków 2010, p. 12). Another woman, in a dark dress, sitting, holds a ladle. In the background is a painting, which we know from accounts that it was an effigy of Emperor Franz Joseph. Little Emilia is sitting on the lap of an officer in Austrian uniform. And that was my aunt's fiancé [...] he fell in love with my aunt [...] when he was in that hospital [...] and went to the front, where he died very quickly. In Bukowina. I remember it, because there was mourning at home then. And Auntie Ela didn't want to get married for many years, because it was her true first love (Wspomnienia Żydowka krakowskiej, p. 20).