Group portrait of members of the women's handball team sponsored by the Reichsbund juedischer Frontsoldaten.
Overview
- Caption
- Group portrait of members of the women's handball team sponsored by the Reichsbund juedischer Frontsoldaten.
The donor, Ilse Dahl, is pictured in the front row, on the left. In the front row on the right is Edith Hermann. Pictured (left to right) in the back row are [unidentified], Edith's sister Else Hermann (probably), [unidentified], and Hedwig ("Hete") Saul from Aachen. Standing behind the group on the right, wearing a coat, is Josephine Lüth. - Date
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March 1935
- Locale
- Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ilse Dahl Cole
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Ilse Dahl Cole
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Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Ilse Dahl was born in Hamm, Germany on May 8, 1916. She was the second child of Emil and Klara David Dahl, who were in the cattle business. Ilse was raised in Geilenkirchen, near Aachen, and lived there until 1936. As a youth, Ilse was an excellent athlete, who competed in many sporting events. In the mid-1930s, after Jews were excluded from German sports clubs, she participated in many competitions sponsored by the Jewish sports organization of the Jewish war veterans association [Reichsbund juedischer Frontsoldaten]. In 1936 the Dahl family moved to Berlin. Through the efforts of relatives in Kansas City, Missouri, the family was able to secure an American visa for Ilse. She left the country immediately after Kristallnacht, travelling through Belgium and Holland to England. From London, she sailed aboard the SS Manhattan for New York. Ilse settled with relatives in Missouri and two years later, married another German-Jewish refugee, Walter Cohn. Ilse's two siblings also survived the war, but her parents were deported and perished.
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