
Where
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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- [ca. 1940] (indexed as 1940)
- Level
- item
- Extent
- Photograph : Paper : b&w ; Ht: 2 7/8 in. x W: 2 in.
- Scope & content
- B&w with white border. Portrait of Paula Deutz wearing a dark coat with a checkered blouse with lace detail around the colar. Narrative: Paula Deutz was a German women whose husband Willy was killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Willie was a German Jew from Frankfurt; Paula wasn't Jewish. They were married in 1929. They had met as Paula worked as a servant for Willie’s parents. Willie was arrested in 1943 and sent to a prison in Darmstadt (Germany). He was later deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) where he was killed. Paula received a death notice from the camp commandant, pretending her husband had succumbed to an infection and she could retrieve his ashes if she desired to do so.
- Location
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- Genre / form
- graphic material
- In the picture
- CoatPortraitStudio PortraitWomanTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
- Text in the image
- cjhn.caRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
- Language
- German
- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
Digital objects at the source
- imageOpen original at source ↗2011X_129_07.jpg