Zugefrorener Main in Frankfurt 1916/1917

This photo shows my great-grandmother with her little son Wilhelm, my grandfather on the Main in Frankfurt. In the background you can see the "Eisernen Steg" and a part of the cathedral. You can even see skaters. What looks so idyllic, however, has a downside. A few months before this picture was taken, the shoemaker family was still living in Taubertal in Baden-Württemberg. From there they fled i…