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    [Ruth Sternfeld, Schlachtensee Displaced Persons camp, Zehlendorf, Berlin]

    Object Name
    220
    Date1947
    Label Text

    Ruth Sternfeld was born in Berlin in 1939. Sternfeld was counted as a Mischling (a German term used by the Third Reich to denote a person who was only partially Aryan), despite the fact that both of her maternal grandparents were Jewish. Although she was considered a “Mischling of first degree,” Sternfeld remained in Berlin throughout the war and, despite her precarious status, managed to survive. Sternfeld was eight years old when Vishniac took this photograph in the Schlachtensee Displaced Persons camp as she prepared to immigrate, probably to the United States or to Palestine.

    Medium
    Gelatin silver print
    Dimensions
    Image: 10 5/8 x 10 1/2 in. (27 x 26.7 cm) Paper: 13 15/16 x 10 15/16 in. (35.4 x 27.8 cm)
    Location
    place taken Berlin, Germany
    Credit Line
    Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn, 2013
    Accession NumberMVK.753.2008
    Copyright
    © Mara Vishniac Kohn