German Jewish Boy: Bar Mitzva


Figure 1.--This German Jewish bow had his Bar Mitzvah portrait taken in the 1930s. There is writing on the back, but we can not make it out very well. Put your cursor on the image to see the back. A reader writes, "This is very difficult to read. I can only make out single words. It is written in old German handwriting. It is addressed to a girl named Rosa."

This German Jewish bow had his Bar Mitzvah portrait taken in the 1930s. We suspect it was taken in the early or mid-1930s. By the late 30s, because of NAZI repression, conditions for Jews in Germany had become very difficult. There is writing on the back, but we can not make it out very well. Put your cursor on the image to see the back. A reader writes, "This is very difficult to read. I can only make out single words. It is written in old German handwriting. It is addressed to a girl named Rosa." This is what our German reader can make out, "Liebe Rosa, die Manz i. u. (single i. and u. makes no sense to me) (now comes a cut), die feige? sind (cut?) so blöd, dass wenn sie" As it is so unclear, it's not possible to provide any reasonable translation. The best we can do is, ""Dear Rosa, the Manz ? ? (cut part), who cowardly? are (cut?) too dumb, that when they." Unfirtunately we do not know the boy's name. And we are left wondering what happened to him as the NAZIs closed in on the Jewish community. Perhaps he became one of the Kindertransport children.






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Created: 4:27 AM 12/25/2006
Last updated: 10:22 PM 7/30/2007