Possibly the parents of Jacob Tager, posing for a portrait before the war broke out.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 75778

Date: October 1935
Locale: Hanover, [Prussian Hanover; Lower Saxony] Germany ?
Variant Locale: Hannover
Photo Designation: JEWISH LIFE IN NAZI GERMANY -- Daily Life/Families/Street Scenes
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Alan Edelman

Biography: Doris Edelman (born Tager), the mother of the donor is the daughter of Jacob Tager and Fanny Brender Tager. She was born in Hannover, Germany in 1925. Her younger brother Henry was born in 1930. Doris attended public school until the Nazi's expelled all Jewish students. She then attended Catholic school. During the Kristallnacht pogrom Jacob was arrested and incarcerated in Dachau for approximately six months. In either 1939 or 1940 the family immigrated to Cuba aboard the S.S. Rotterdam. After three to five years, they immigrated to the United States and settled in Kansas City.
Keyword: JEWS
JEWS (GERMAN)
STUDIO PORTRAITS
WOMEN
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Alan Edelman
: Record last modified: 2014-08-01 00:00:00
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