Gift of Jerome and Carolyn Mahrer

Id no. 1999.P.288, Photograph

March 1941, Praha, Prague, Bohemia

Subject(s):  Image, Children

Jerome (Jerry) Mahrer is standing outside his Prague home in March 1941. Jerome is the son of Paul Mahrer (b. Czechoslovakia, 1900), a professional soccer player who represented Czechoslovakia on the national soccer team in the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, and also travelled with the Jewish ?HaKoach? soccer team. Jerome (b. 1929), was born in the United States.

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