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Klara Taussig and Ernst Brecher on an outing in the Austrian countryside
Klara Taussig and Ernst Brecher go on an outing in the Austrian countryside before their marriage. They later had a son, Heinz, who was born on August 29, 1932 in Graz, Austria. where his father was a merchant. After the Germans annexed Austria in 1938, Klara and Ernst sent Heinz to live with friends of an aunt in Zagreb.
Heinz survived and eventually came to the United States on the Henry Gibbins, a military troop transport. Klara and Ernst died in the concentration camps.
Photograph taken in Austria, 1930–32.
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- US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Henry H. Brecher