Close-up portrait of an elderly Jewish woman in Breisach, Germany.
Photograph | Photograph Number: 69540
- Photographer
- Heinz Bähr
- Date
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1937
- Variant Locale
- Alt Breisach
Breisasch Am Rhine - Photo Designation
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JEWISH LIFE IN NAZI GERMANY -- Daily Life/Families/Street Scenes
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Bahr
Close-up portrait of an elderly Jewish woman in Breisach, Germany.
Pictured is Emilie Geismar (nee Schnurmann). She died in Breisach from natural causes.
This is part of series of photographs taken of the Breisach Jewish community on their way to and from synagogue in 1937. In October 1940 the entire community was deported to the Gurs internment camp in southern France.
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Record last modified: 2006-03-21 00:00:00
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