The register

The source tree hangs about a hundred people off two nodes literally named “UNKNOWN PLACEHOLDERS Luwinski” and “Germany Luwinski”. They run from 1757 to 1929 and carry Polish spouse surnames — Grzegorzewska, Kruczyńska, Paturalska, Sabędzka, Błożkiewicz, Leciejewska, Melkowa, Klich.

That is a collection of every Luwinski found in the German and Polish registers, parked under a placeholder so it could be kept. It is useful and worth keeping. It is not descent, and it is not presented here as though it were. Not one of these people has been shown to connect to Joachim Luwinski of Allenstein. Unproven

And this is where the photographs are Unproven

Opening every image in the source tree produced seven identified faces. Two are Georg Leibholz, murdered at Chełmno — the only picture in the archive of anyone who was killed. The other five are all one family: Josef Fuhl (b. 1876) and Martha Fuhl née Schulz (b. 1874) of Berlin, their daughter Helene Auguste (1905–1977) in a cloche hat, her husband Josef Turowski (1902–1963) in a stiff collar, and their daughter Helene Maria Frubrich née Turowski (1930–2020).

They reach this tree because another Fuhl daughter, Martha (b. 14 September 1903), married Leo Luwinski, born 22 March 1902. And Leo's father, in the source tree, is “Germany Luwinski” — the placeholder above. He is given twenty-four brothers whose dates run from 1807 to 1923.

So the archive now has faces, and they are ordinary ones: a wedding hat, a suit, a woman grown old in a garden. But they are faces from the index, not from the line. Nothing connects Leo Luwinski to Joachim Luwinski of Allenstein except the surname, and until something does, these are photographs of a family that may be no relation at all. They are named here and not shown.