A last class photo
Gisela and her family right before emigration
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DRESDEN
Gisela Kleinermann (top row, right) had recently turned 10 years old. With her arm around her classmate, she looks, with a slight smile, into the camera. At this time, Gisela may already have known that she will not be part of this class of the Jewish school in Dresden any longer. In late summer 1938, her mother Erna prepared her family’s emigration to the United States. Step by step, in recent years the Nazis forced segregation in public schools. In many Jewish communities—as well as in Dresden—new Jewish schools were founded as a result.
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Institution:
Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin
Collection:
Class picture of Gisela Kleinermann, Erna Weingold Kleinermann Collection, AR 11787
Original:
F 001
