Nazis perfect Aryan propaganda baby was actually Jewish Nazi poster-child revealed to be Hessy Taft, nee Levinsons, Jewish woman now living in NY; I feel a little revenge, something like satisfaction, she says. The ideal Aryan child promoted by the Nazi regime and personally picked by Joseph Goebbels during the Holocaust was actually a Jewish baby. Hessy Taft, nee Levinsons, now an 80-year-old professor of chemistry in New York, recently presented Yad Vashem with the cover of a 1935 Nazi magazine on which she appeared. Tafts opera singer parents, Pauline and Jacob, moved from Lavtia to Germany in 1928, Bild said, but by 1935 the Nazis anti-Jewish laws meant that they could no longer perform. Her father had found work as a door-to-door salesman for an agricultural company but her parents managed to scrape together enough money for professional photographer Hans Ballin to snap their baby, the newspaper said. A few months later, Taft told the paper, the family was shocked to discover that their daughters image was on the front cover of a Nazi propaganda magazine called Sun in the House, which was edited by Kurt Herrman, a friend of Hermann Goering and a staunch Nazi. Ballin deliberately entered the photograph in a contest for the most beautiful Aryan baby, and when Tafts mother questioned his actions, he told her: I know, but I wanted to make the Nazis ridiculous. The winning photograph was personally chosen by Goebbels, Bild said. The family fled Germany to Paris in 1938, and then moved to Cuba before arriving in the United States in 1949. The Nazis never discovered that their perfect baby, whose image they heavily disseminated, was in fact Jewish. We, 2nd generation and 3rd generation to families that survived the Holocaust and built new lives, deeply believe that we are bound to keep alive the memories of the victims of the Holocaust and their heritage. We dare not forget those who perished and what was their fate in the holocaust. Click here and see how you can help us to uncover many more stories like this >>> [bit.ly/Dorot-Campaign]
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:05:29 +0000
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