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Like @Ceramicmrn0b says, you have to make the flashback obvious. it should be in a different paragraph for starters, maybe even after a page break. If you want to go all-in, you could possibly do a new chapter if your book is structured that way, but I wouldn't recommend it.
As for the point of view that you choose, that is entirely up to you. YOu can read books with flashbacks in them, (like one of my personal favorites, Flowers for Algernon) or just dive in ( a good link to check out is this one, it explains the flashback a bit). A word of advice on whichever POV you choose: Don't use second-person POV. It's very confusing jumping into another point of view (I'm guessing) and having it so starkly different from your book. Most novels are written in first or third-person point of view, and I would keep it that way for the flashbacks--unless you have good reason not to.
The bottom line is this: Make the flashbacks obvious and make them separate. after those two things are done, you have a pretty good start to a flashback.

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