Accession Number: NEKHC:2016.1.9

Object: Photographs


Physical Description: Photograph complete 





Further Information

This photograph is of Ruth David's elder half-brother, Werner. Werner was the son of Ruth's father, Moritz, and his first wife Klara. Moritz had been left with three young children after Klara died due to a failed operation in the early ninteen twenties. Ruth's father remarried and wed Margarete, Ruth's mother. Werner is pictured here just before he left in May 1938, to go to Argentina. Werner left Germany due to the increasing Nazi persecution of Jewish people and arrived in Argentina with the intention of providing means for the rest of his family to leave, he managed to gain work farming cattle, however he was not able to save the family. Ruth's parents were murdered in the Holocaust.