The photograph, dated 1940, depicts Werner Teitz reading a book with a woman in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Arthur “Werner” Teitz was a German Jewish boy with cerebral palsy. He lived in a Munich medical facility between 1931 and 1938. After Kristallnacht, his parents sent him to a medical facility in the Netherlands. Though his family was able to escape Europe in 1940, Werner was not. After Nazi Germany occupied the Netherlands, German authorities eventually sent him to the Westerbork transit camp. They then deported him to the Sobibor killing center in May 1943, where he was murdered at the age of 18.
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