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Living in a very crowded one-room apartment, the young couple gave birth to Hessy Levinsons on May 17, 193. She was
beautiful. So when she was 6 months old, the parents decided
to have her picture taken They took her to one of the bes
t Her parents liked it so much that they framed it and put it up hw ain
on the piano They had thought the picture was a private family
photo But soon after, a woman who helped clean the apartment definitely
,请
arrived to deliver some surprising new
s ou, no the woman said, I saw Hessy on a magazine. fed. 0
9 Hessy s mother found that impossible to believe. A lot of contact/. get in ouch wh
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helper was mistaken. But she wasnt
" No, no, the helper explained to Tafts mother. " It's definitely
Hessy. Just give me some money, and Ill get you the magazine
contest / contest n. M: D
II Money changed hands, and the maid soon returned with
sklemm/v. cry out suddenly
a magazine. The cover photo was exactly the same picture oudy om gain nges e
hat was there, resting on the piano. The magazine was a Nazi competition / tio/n a
magazine with pages full of images of men wearing swastikas be prone pr un/ to have a tendency
and even one of Hitler himself reviewing the troops
12 The parents were terrified. Why was their Jewish infant on egerton /gzd>reio n.
the cover of a Nazi magazine
collection/ka lekan/ n (-2)
13 They contacted the photographer and tried to find out m
what had really happened
numerous/nju:mar?s/ a great in
mary为数众多的;无数的
14 The photographer told them that he had been asked to
lication (pabl kenyon/ n.出反如
submit his 10 best pictures for a beauty contest run by the Nazis
So were 10 other outstanding photographers in Germany And
he sent in Hessy's picture
15"But you knew my Hessy is a Jewish child, the mother
exclaimed
16yes the photographer said, explaining there had
competition to find the perfect example of the Aryan race to
further Nazi philosophy I wanted to allow myself the pleasure
of this joke. And you see, I was right. Of all the babies, they
picked this baby as the perfect Aryan
I7 Family stories are always prone to exaggeration- but this
appears to be true. Taft has a large collection of photographs
that show her in numerous publications and cards. I can laugh
about it now"said Taft, now a chemistry professor at St Johns
I Money changed hands: It means that one person passed or paid money to anothe
hanged from one persons hands to anothers
