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An elderly German-Jewish couple sits at their table holding hands, surrounded by their three children.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 69348
An elderly German-Jewish couple sits at their table holding hands, surrounded by their three children. Pictured in the center are Leopold Herz and his wife Lena Solomon Herz. Also pictured are their children, Richard, Lotte and Lilly.

An elderly German-Jewish couple sits at their table holding hands, surrounded by their three children.

Pictured in the center are Leopold Herz and his wife Lena Solomon Herz. Also pictured are their children, Richard, Lotte and Lilly.

Date
Circa 1920 - 1930
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 Kurt & Jill Berg Pauly

About This Photograph

Biography
Kurt Pauly is the son of Hugo Pauly and Selma Herz Pauly. He was born on March 26, 1930 in the city of Aachen, where his mother's family had resided since the 18th century. His father, though trained as a chef, worked as a butcher and also managed several stores for his father-in-law. The Paulys lived over one of those shops in the nearby suburb of Eilendorf. Among Kurt's extended family were his cousins, Anne and Margot Frank. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the situation drastically changed for the Paulys. Worsening conditions forced the family to close its shops. In 1936 the Paulys immigrated to Palestine, where Kurt's father had a trucking business. Two years later, the family came to the United States on the Palestinian quota, after receiving affidavits of financial support from friends. They settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, a city with a large German population. There, Kurt attended school and his father found work in a cafeteria peeling potatoes and onions. Later, Kurt's father became a chef at a local restaurant. After the war, Kurt learned that some of his closest relatives in Germany had perished in the Holocaust. In 1948 the Paulys moved to Vineland, New Jersey, where they bought a chicken farm. After serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Kurt went on to graduate with honors from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Kurt & Jill Berg Pauly
 
Record last modified: 2005-09-20 00:00:00
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