Figure 1.-- Sophie, Freudssecond daughter had two boys, Heinz and Ernst, seen here in a photograph probably taken by their father, Max Halberstadt, in 1923. Their mother had died in the post-Worlkd War I fku pandemic (1920). Their father had troublr carrying for them, especially as Heibz was sick. Heinz died of tuberculosis shortly after this portrait was taken. Halberstadt remarried abd his wife did not take to the boys. The Freuds carred fir Heinz and eventully took Ernstr in and essentuislly adopted him.

Europe and America were racked by a flu pandemic at the end of World War I (1918-19). It was the most deadly pandemic in modern times. One of his daughters Sophie Freud (1893–1920) married Hamburg photograoher Max Halberstadt (1882–1940). They had two children, Ernst Wolfgang (1914-2008) and Heinz (1918-23). Sophie died in post-World War I influenza epidemic (1920). Her husband survived, but was apparently unable to take care of the boys. And then after he remarried, his new wife did not take to them. Freud took them in first Heinz and then Ernst. When Heinz died, Freud essentially adopted Ernst. Halberstadt was a succesful Hamburg portrait phographer. He was a founding member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner and an expert in photographic techniques. His most notable surviving images are those of his father-in-law. Much of his work today is unknown as it was was lost when the NAZIs seized his assetts and oroperty and drove him out of Germany pennyless (1936). He died in South Africa (1940). His son younger son Heinz perhaps weakened by the flue, died of tuberculosis (1923). Ernest had a long successful life. His grandfather helped get him safely out of Austria (1938). He pursued psycoanalysis as a career in England, at times working with Aunt Anna. Late in life retuned to Germany.

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