Hessy Taft Biography

A woman whose photograph was chosen by the Nazis to depict the perfect Aryan baby has described how she was selected by Joseph Goebbels himself – despite being Jewish.
Hessy Taft’s visage was replicated across Nazi Germany on cards and posters and she recently presented a copy a Nazi magazine with it on the cover to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Israel.
Now 80 and working as a chemistry professor in New York Taft told Germany’s Bild newspaper how a Jewish baby became one of the key propaganda figures for the anti-Semitic regime.
She explained that her mother Pauline Levinson took her to famous Berlin photographer Hans Ballin to have her baby picture taken in 1935.
A few months after the studio session Ms. Levinson was shocked to discover her daughter on the cover of the hugely popular “Sun in the House” family magazine edited by a friend of Nazi leader Hermann Goering.

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