The woman in the photograph visited the wounded in the medical hospital. The man in the photograph, Harry Hostysser, enlisted in the Polish army before the outbreak of World War II (as a Jew), was wounded in the war, and was taken captive. He was hospitalized in the German military hospital in Warsaw and in Chelm. Despite his being Jewish, he was treated and released. After his release, he worked on a Polish estate, hid in the fields, and managed to survive until the end of the war. In 1949, he emigrated to the United States.