The Hess children play a quartet for strings and piano in their home in Hamburg.
Overview
- Caption
- The Hess children play a quartet for strings and piano in their home in Hamburg.
Marion Hess is pictured at the piano. - Date
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1938
- Locale
- Hamburg, [Hansestadt] Germany
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Marion Hess Isaac
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Marion Hess Isaac
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Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Marion Isaac (born Marion Hess) is the oldest child of Erwin and Gertrude Hess. She was born March 5, 1922 in Hamburg, where her father was a prosperous coffee merchant and an amateur pianist and composer. Marion had two sisters and a brother, Gisela, Ursula and Juergen. All of the Hess children studied music, and their family often played chamber music together. The Hess family remained in Germany after the Nazi takeover of power. In 1937 Marion and her siblings were dismissed from their German schools and moved to a Jewish school. The following year her father was arrested during the night of Kristallnacht and sent to Sachsenhausen. He was released only after the family secured a Brazilian visa for him. A few months later he left alone for South America. In December 1938 Marion and her siblings left for England on a Kindertransport. The following year Marion's mother arrived in England and reunited with her children. Though Marion's siblings were able to pursue their musical education, she had to earn a living and spent much of her time in England working in a home for mentally handicapped children. Soon after the war Marion Hess immigrated to the United States.
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