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My paternal Grandmother, Tatjana, sat for this passport photo at around the time her husband, Vytautas, traveled to Belgium. I don't know whether this image was part of an internal passport or whether it identified Tatjana for foreign travel.

Kaunas, Lithuania, 1936. Here's how Tatjana looked ten years later, and here she was, ready to emigrate to the United States. Tatjana's face wore the weariness of hard times throughout her life.