I'm on a search right now to find my father as I last saw him when I was a young child but lost all contact with him, though I was very close to my grandfather until he died in 2007. My mother and I used to live with him when I first moved to the town I currently live in whilst she was looking for a house. My grandfather was conscripted to the British army as part of the then mandatory service in Palestine but he later deflected and joined the early Palestinian resistance just after WWII. He had a photo album from his time there as he was a keen photographer (he also went to Syria and Jordan as well as Palestine), and I visited Palestine in 2017 to retrace his steps.