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    Title

  • Gerty Spies : studio portrait

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white

  • Date

    1976

  • Place of Publication

    Munich

  • Summary

    Handwritten note on verso: “Der lieben Ailsa herzliche Grüße von ihrer Gerty“.

  • Depicted

    Spies, Gerty, 1897-

  • Subject

    Poets; Holocaust survivors; Portraits, Women

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Gerty Spies collection, AR 6903

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

The poet Gerty Spies was born in Munich in 1897. In 1942, she was deported to Theresienstadt and began to write poems, which were published after the war. Gerty Spies died in Munich in 1997.

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Citation

Gerty Spies : studio portrait, Leo Baeck Institute, F 001 AR 6903.