Overview
- Caption
- Close-up portrait of a Jewish man in Breisach, Germany.
Pictured is Leopold Geismar. He was a cousin of the Bährs. He died in the Jewish Home for the Elderly in Gailingen in July 1939.
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. - Photographer
- Heinz Bähr
- Date
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1937
- Locale
- Breisach, [Baden; Baden-Wuerttemberg] Germany
- Variant Locale
- Alt Breisach
Breisasch Am Rhine - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Bahr
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Robert Bahr
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- CLOSE-UPS JEWS (GERMAN)
- Photo Designation
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JEWISH LIFE IN NAZI GERMANY -- Daily Life/Families/Street Scenes
- Record last modified:
- 2016-07-26 00:00:00
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