Re: [Cz-L] The jewish connection

Hardy,

Originally his name spelled Prager (it was his mother's maiden name),
but in the mid-1930s he changed it to Pragher, to make it sound less
Jewish. He was already compromised in Nazi's eyes by his affiliation
with Reimann-Schule (one of the top art schools in Berlin where he
taught; the founder, Albert Reimann, and many other faculty were
Jewish) and apparently thought that changing the name would spare him
from further troubles.

Iosif

2011/8/3 HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>:
> Willy Pragher.
>  As soon as we find a famous person we look for his jewish   connection.
>  How can one be famous and not a Czernowitzer or at least Jewish ?
>   Then we learn how Jewish names came to be.
>  And that Hamburgers , Frankfurter and Wiener are not only
>   sausages or meat balls.
>     If he wrote his name Prager all would be much simpler.
>      But he was in the Wehrmacht and was a POW in Siberia,      But most
> important to us  he took pictures of Jews in Cz in 1941.
>    Nobody else did.
>     Thanks Willy,
> Hardy
>

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