Photograph of baby Jehudi, September 1943

In December 1942, my grandparents made the impossible decision to entrust their 16-month-old son, Jehudi, to the Dutch Resistance.

A Protestant couple from Haarlem, Peter and Elizabeth Stol, took him in and hid him until the end of the war, at great personal risk.

In September 1943, they managed to send this photograph of Jehudi to my grandparents in Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands. Hidden inside a bag of raw haricot beans, the photograph reached them safely.

This image was more than a photograph - it was proof that their son was alive, and must have given my grandparents great hope in circumstances where there was so little to hold on to.