The photo showing three girls of Jewish origin fleeing Nazi Germany has toured museums and exhibitions around the world.
It was created at a train station in London, but for more than 80 years the identity of these girls was unknown.
Until now.
Inge does not remember the moment when the photo was taken and for decades she did not even know of its existence.
When she was five years old, she ran away from her former home in Breslau, Germany, and today Wroclaw, Poland, together with her ten-year-old sister Ruth.
Their mother and younger sister stayed at home and were later killed in Auschwitz.
Only in retirement did Inge realize that she and Ruth, who died in 2015, were immortalized as a symbol of the Holocaust and the Kindertransport, that is, the mass evacuation of Jewish children from Nazi Germany in 1939.
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She came across the photo in a book by historian Martin Gilbert, Never againe.
"It was a big surprise.
"He just published 'Three Girls' in that book, so I wrote to him and told him how we live," said Inge, whose maiden name is Adamec.
She added that people say she looks like actress Shirley Temple.
"Why am I smiling? Just look at Ruth, she was very affected by it all.
"I don't know who the third girl holding the doll is, I never found out," says Inge.
The girl with the doll is actually ten-year-old Hana Kon.
She and her twin brother Hans, later called Gerald, arrived on the same train from Halle, Germany, as the Adamec girls.
The leg of Hans' trousers can be seen on the original glass photo-plate of the painting.
Like Inga and Ruth, Hana does not remember that this photo was taken, although she remembers the trip and the doll.
Hannah died in 2018, but spoke about her experiences in an interview with the University of London.
"I remember passing through the Netherlands and the kind-hearted women giving us food and lemonade.
"We got to London station on the train from Harwich and I was worried we'd mistakenly got into first class because the seats weren't wooden, they were upholstered," she said.
He adds that they finally arrived in a huge hall, and that she was holding a doll named Evelyn close to her.
Hana first learned of the photo's existence when her brother saw it at an exhibition at Camden Library in London marking the 50th anniversary of the Kindertransport.
Her daughters, twins Debbie and Helen Singer, said she had a great desire to find out who the other two girls were.
"Whenever we'd see that picture of her sitting with the braid and the doll, she'd say, 'I wonder who those other two girls are,'" says Debbie.
And then, in January, more than 80 years after the photograph was taken, her daughters discovered the truth after coming across a BBC audio series.
In our attachment Girls: A Holocaust Safe House, we bring the forgotten story of the North-East hostel where Inge, a married Hamilton, and Ruth spent part of the war.
“It was Holocaust Remembrance Day and my friend sent me a link to BBC storiesHelen said.
"I wondered why he was sending me that link," she says.
She adds that she then saw a photo of her mother, but also the names of the other two girls, Rut and Inge.
"We were very excited. I texted Debbie that we found the girls," she says.
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In April, Inge finally met Hannah's daughters at the Imperial War Museum in London, where the photograph has been on display for more than 20 years.
Then the twins learned more about the two families and what happened after the picture was taken.
"Inge is someone special in our lives. I think mom would be very proud of us.
"She always talked about those girls, and the fact that we found them would mean a lot to her," says Debbie.
But what happened to the photographer?
From the database kept by the Halton Getty Images Archive, we know that his surname was Stevenson and that he worked for the agency Topical Press, which employed more than 1.000 photographers to supply images to the vast newspaper industry.
There is still a book there that recorded what the photographers did on which day.
Next to the photograph "Three little girls waiting at Liverpool Street Station", taken on July 5, 1939, it is stated in the margin that the surname of the photographer is Stevenson.
We cannot know for sure, but it is possible that it was a Scotsman named John F. Stevenson who became famous as one of the authors of the song Dear Old Glasgow Toon.
In the 20s, the Topical Press agency had his address in Glasgow.
Using the Scottish Public Archives, through the addresses on the baptism and death certificates, we found his family.
His grandson, journalist Gordon Stevenson, was fascinated by the story of his grandfather's career as a photographer in the late XNUMXs.
"We know that he took photographs all his life and we have many of his pictures.
"We know it was a very important part of his life," says Gordon.
He adds that they only knew a lot about his career in his later years.
"The discovery of his rather rich career in the late XNUMXs was a complete shock, but incredible.
"We didn't know anything about his photographic career south of our border," says the grandson.
He says it was a real revelation for his family.
"We're still trying to come to grips with the fact that it could have been him, which is really beautiful," Gordon said.
The photo appeared in the News Chronicle the day after it was taken.
After that, it was used only occasionally until the digital age, when it began to appear more and more often in newspapers and at exhibitions.
During Debbie and Helen Singer's visit, the Getty Images archive changed the information so that the names of all three girls are now in the caption of the picture.
"I was on the verge of tears, because our mother's name and the place where she came from is now linked to that photo together with Inge and Ruth.
"They're not just nameless kids anymore," Debbie says.
Helen added that they weren't just 'three girls', they had names and lives that mattered.
"They deserve to be named and we think our mother would be happy about it," says Helen.
Inge, who is now 89 and lives in South London, waited more than eight decades to learn the name of the kind girl who lent her the doll.
She now knows much more about the photography that has followed her throughout her life.
"That photo just seems to draw people in," he says.
Additional reporting: Duncan Leatherdale
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