Photograph 1; Ruth David

Accession Number: NEKHC:2016.1.1

Object: Photographs

Physical Description: Photograph complete 

Information: This photograph forms part of the Ruth David Collection. It is from a collection of almost fifty photographs depicting Ruth's family over an extended period of time, from long before Ruth's birth in the late 1920s, through to the 1940s.

Further Information

This photograph is of Ruth David's mother, Margarete, who is holding Ruth's eldest sister, Hannah. The family were Jewish and lived in Fränkisch-Crumbach, Germany. Hannah is a young baby in the photo, and was born in 1926. Speaking of the image in 2016, Ruth remembers that the photo was taken by her aunt Liese, who was her mother's sister. Ruth remembers her aunt fondly, as a woman who enjoyed taking photos of her sister's children and spoiled and as a loving aunt who spoiled her nieces and nephews. Ruth's mother was murdered in the Holocaust. 

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