Gerson Family collection Accession Number: AWM2018.961.2.44

Description

'Four Gerson sisters on Adele's leaving for England 1939.' The Gerson sisters, Selma Gerson, Adele Gerson, Berta Gerson and Herta Lewinsky (nee Gerson) at Berlin Zoologischer Garten train station. A nurse in the Imperial Germany Army in the First World War, Adele Gerson continued her career in Berlin after the war until the increasing persecution of the Jewish people led her to leave Germany for employment at the Royal Cancer Hospital in London. This photograph was one of a series that captured her departure, and the last occasion on which the Gerson sisters were together. Adele emigrated to England and later Australia, while Selma, Berta, and Herta perished as a result of the Holocaust.

Details

Accession Number
AWM2018.961.2.44
Photographer
Theodor Kabaker
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Brand: Agfa – Lupex
Support: Paper (Fibre-based)
Measurement
Overall: 61 mm x 90 mm
Date Made
1939
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright unknown - orphaned work

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