Gift of Margie Nitzan

Id no. 2006.91, Photograph

1943 to 1946, Italy, Milan

Subject(s):  Christian institutions, Escape and rescue, Children, Orphanages

Hans Levi and his sister, Hannelore, were hidden in the orphanage during the Holocaust. To disguise his Jewish identity, Levi was given the name Giovanni Bianchi and was baptized. This image was likely taken shortly before Levi and Hannelore moved to Switzerland to join their mother, who fled there in 1943.