
Lucile Ave. has a rock wall around the front yard. My parents had a photographer friend who took these.

After two recon trips to London, on May 7, 1934, Willie, Liesel and daughter Edith move there permanently. The scouting trips were probably to set up an English branch of the family business, which of course never happened.

Still in Hannover, Bertha types while Louis and Elsbeth look on. They were reluctant to leave Germany, but finally did so in 1940 with much help from Lily.

1937: Following in the footsteps of her mother, Eva Baruch is now a successful actress in Berlin theater.

Circa 1937: L-R, Max Franken, his daughter, Kaethe, Paul Rehfisch (newly married to Kaethe), and the father of Paul, Louis Rehfisch. A year later Paul and Kaethe would flee to Amsterdam.

Bari Baruch is already in Shanghai, having arrived a year earlier, after trouble with the Nazis for being gay.

Shanghai, 1940. Eva Baruch Schwarcz and Isaac Goldmann star in a movie titled "The Driven People/Under Exile". Filming is completed but the Japanese prevent it from being finished. The film was directed by Gertrude Wolfson.

Circa 1943: Our backyard. I am holding the hand of Cecile Ballin. She was the daughter of refugee friends of my parents.