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Portrait of the Brod family in Prague.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 45899
Portrait of the Brod family in Prague. Seated from left to right are: Josef, Irma, Mathilda and Leo Brod. Standing are Frieda, Karel and Anna.

Portrait of the Brod family in Prague.

Seated from left to right are: Josef, Irma, Mathilda and Leo Brod. Standing are Frieda, Karel and Anna.

Date
1912
Locale
Prague, [Bohemia] Czechoslovakia
Variant Locale
Praha
Czech Republic
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Czechoslovakia -- Family/Friends/Portraits
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Peter Brod

About This Photograph

Biography
Peter Brod is the son of Leo and Elizabeth (Hermann) Brod. His father was a lawyer, and his mother, an office clerk. Leo was a Jew; Elizabeth was the daughter of a Catholic mother, Friederike (Lahr) Hermann, and a Jewish father, Karill Hermann, who had converted to Catholicism before World War I. The Hermanns lived in the Rothau district of the Sudetenland, which was governed by Czechoslovakia until its incorporation into the Third Reich in 1938. Following the annexation, Karill was designated a Jew and his passport was stamped with the letter J for "Jude." Advised by the Germans to leave the Sudetenland, the Hermanns relocated to Prague. The Gestapo interrogated Frederike several times and urged her to divorce her husband, but she always refused. After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Hermanns became citizens of the German Reich. Since it was a mixed marriage, Karill and his two adult Mischlinge children, Elizabeth and Norbert, were exempt from wearing the yellow star. Elizabeth, who before the occupation had married the Czech Jew, Leo Brod, remained in Prague throughout the war. Leo, however, fled to England two weeks after the German occupation and remained there until 1947.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Peter Brod
 
Record last modified: 2006-12-13 00:00:00
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