Photograph 15; Ruth David

Accession Number: NEKHC:2016.1.15

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. Ruth's family were Jewish and lived in Germany.

Further Information

This is a photograph of Ruth David's elder half-brother, Werner. Werner was the son of Ruth's father, Moritz, and his first wife Klara. Moritz had been left with three young children after Klara died due to a failed operation in the early ninteen twenties. Ruth's father remarried and wed Margarete, Ruth's mother. Werner is pictured here just before he left in May 1938, to go to Argentina. Werner left Germany due to the increasing Nazi persecution of Jewish people and arrived in Argentina with the intention of providing means for the rest of his family to leave, he managed to gain work farming cattle, however he was not able to save the family. Ruth's parents were murdered in the Holocaust. 

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