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...story "House with the Green Shield" (he had been born in the humbler "Red Shield House" that gave the family its name-Rot Schild) and sent his bumptious sons off to the financial strongholds of Europe to try their hands at business. Nathan settled in London, Jakob in Paris, Salomon in Vienna, Kalmann in Naples, and Amschel stayed home to help Father. The turning point in Meyer's career came when he ingratiated himself with Prince William of Hesse by selling him rare coins at a bargain. The prince reciprocated by giving Meyer the job of investing his vast...
CHARLOTTE, by Charlotte Salomon. A touching, visual diary of one Jewish family's persecution and extermination by the Nazis, painted by Charlotte just before her death in Auschwitz...
CHARLOTTE, by Charlotte Salomon. A touching, visual diary of one Jewish family's persecution and extermination by the Nazis, painted by Charlotte just before her death in Auschwitz...
CHARLOTTE, by Charlotte Salomon. A touching visual diary of one Jewish family's persecution and extermination by the Nazis, painted by Charlotte just before her death in Auschwitz...
Charlotte Salomon lived in Villefranche for four years. After her grandmother's suicide (like her daughter, the old woman leapt out of a window) and her grandfather's death, she was left alone. She fell in love. Her Jewish fiance had a forged identity card. When he applied to marry her, the authorities explained to him that as an Aryan he was forbidden to marry a Jew. He confessed the forgery and they were married. On Sept. 21, 1943 a Gestapo truck drew up to their home. Both died in the gas chamber at Auschwitz...