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Alice Salomon, born 1872 into a Jewish home in Berlin, became known as a social reformer and pioneer of social work, and she received multiple honors in Prussia. In 1938, she was forced to emigrate, and she settled in New York, where she died in 1948.

The photographer Trude Fleischmann was born in Vienna in 1895 and opened her first studio in 1920. It was a favorite haunt of artists and intellectuals alike until 1938, when she escaped Nazi regime and emigrated to New York, where she resumed her studio work in 1940. After a sojourn in Switzerland, Trude Fleischmann died in Brewster, NY in 1990.

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Alice Salomon / photographed and signed by Trude Fleischmann, Leo Baeck Institute, F 11331A.