Actually, Hersch Freier, a scrap metal dealer, and his wife Rachel, who lived on the neighboring 3 Münzgasse, went to a rival studio for their family photos: two houses down, at Peterssteinweg 19, was the “Georg Brokesch” studio. Nevertheless, portraits of four of the adult siblings can be found in the Mittelmann Photo Archive. There were many occasions for photos—between 1904 and 1922, eleven children of the family were born in Leipzig.
After the National Socialists came to power, some of the siblings refused to acknowledge the gravity of the racism, while others urged an immediate escape. Five children perished in Nazi camps; two were rescued—four siblings and their parents managed to flee to Palestine in time.
