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Group portrait of the extended Dahl family taken on the 75th birthday of Helene Dahl.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 18274
Group portrait of the extended Dahl family taken on the 75th birthday of Helene Dahl. Pictured on the bottom row (left to right): David Meyer, Sophie Meyer, Helene Dahl, unknown, Moses Meyer. Second row: Isadore Dahl, Sofia Dahl, Jenni Giesenow, George Giesenow,, unknown, unknown, Elyse Capell, unknown, Mrs Moses Meyer, Hugo Capell. Third row: Mr and Mrs Baer, Adolf Dahl, Olga Dahl, Karl Dahl, Marta Dahl, Tina Dahl, Robert Dahl. Top row: first two unknown, Emil Dahl, Klara Dahl, Augusta Franken, unknown, Max Stahl, Steffi Stahl, Otto Dahl, Else Jellinek, Felix Jellinek.

Group portrait of the extended Dahl family taken on the 75th birthday of Helene Dahl.

Pictured on the bottom row (left to right): David Meyer, Sophie Meyer, Helene Dahl, unknown, Moses Meyer. Second row: Isadore Dahl, Sofia Dahl, Jenni Giesenow, George Giesenow,, unknown, unknown, Elyse Capell, unknown, Mrs Moses Meyer, Hugo Capell. Third row: Mr and Mrs Baer, Adolf Dahl, Olga Dahl, Karl Dahl, Marta Dahl, Tina Dahl, Robert Dahl. Top row: first two unknown, Emil Dahl, Klara Dahl, Augusta Franken, unknown, Max Stahl, Steffi Stahl, Otto Dahl, Else Jellinek, Felix Jellinek.

Date
1921
Locale
Aachen, [Prussian Rhineland; North Rhine-Westphalia] Germany
Variant Locale
Aix-la-Chapelle
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Germany (pre-1933) -- Family/Friends/Portraits
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ilse Dahl Cole

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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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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Ilse Dahl Cole
 
Record last modified: 2013-01-14 00:00:00
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