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The sociologist and historian Eva Reichmann was born as Eva Jungmann in Lublinitz, Silesia (Lubliniec , Poland) in 1897. She studied in Breslau, Munich, and Berlin before graduating with a doctorate in social sciences at the university of Heidelberg. In 1924, she joined the head office of the "Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens" in Berlin and also worked as an editor for the journal "Der Morgen, Monatszeitschrift der deutschen Juden". She married the lawyer Hans Reichmann, a functionary at “Centralverein”, who was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp after Kristallnacht. When he was released, the couple fled to Great Britain. - Eva Reichmann worked for the BBC, and after the war she became director of research at the Wiener Library in London, alerting the British public to the continuing threat of fascism and racism. She lectured and published about German-Jewish reconciliation, and she was one of the founders of the Leo Baeck Institute in London. Reichmann earned a second doctorate from the London School of Economics with her published thesis "Hostages of Civilisation" (London, 1950; Boston 1951; German title: 'Flucht in den Hass", 1956) that analyzed the Jewish catastrophe in Germany. She also earned the Rosenzweig-Buber medal, the "Moses-Mendelssohn-Preis" in 1982, and the German "Bundesverdienstkreuz' in 1983. Eva Reichmann died in London at age 101 in 1998.

The photographer Laelia Goehr, née Rivlin, was born in Kiev in 1908. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, she moved with her family via Warsaw to Berlin. Studying piano, she embarked on a musical career in Germany, but after her marriage to Walter Goehr and their emigration to England in the 1930s, she concentrated on photography and became a well-known portraitist.

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Eva Reichmann, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2878.