The farm in Rockland County

 The group of farm people my mother's cousin Jack brought over in 1939 and 1940.  German Jews, very dangerous.  Don't know how he did it.  Though my mother insisted they were self-sufficient and sometimes they brought vegetables.  I don't think the farm lasted very long.  Not much agrarian background among European Jews.

Some of  my closer relatives are in this picture; I can identify them.  Left was the cousin Jack.  Next to him is my Aunt Ruth, I think the lady in the white jacket in the middle is my great aunt Gertrude with her youngest son Jim crouching next to her.  Farthest to my right is my grandmother Regina.

I haven't figured out the rest of the people.  But it was Jack's sister Flora, her husband Wilhelm Adler and her father in law Abraham Adler.  Jack's brother Julius and his wife Irene.  I don't know about Flora.

Julius and Irene had their children in the 1920s as did my grandmother.  I don't know who the other young boy is.  

This is around 1940, don't know how to date it.

But here's the kicker.  Jack, Flora and Julius' were siblings.

Another sibling -- David Baumann, for whom we laid the stolpersteine memorial in Amsterdam two years ago.  

I wondered why my mother and family didn't know about David and his family.  My mother had passed away when we discovered it.  Oh, people didn't know, they didn't know my grandfather's cousins, they were far away, people didn't talk about it,  it was different then, no computers, etc.

Nope, not buying it now or before.  Here are 3 of David's siblings right in this picture (somewhere) posing with my grandmother, my aunt, my great aunt and her son.  My mother telling me the story of the farm in 1985.  Flora and her husband sailed from Rotterdam and registered in Amsterdam.  They had to know about David being in Amsterdam.