Portrait of Gerda Wronker.

The sitter, Gerda Wronker, is a young woman with light brown, shoulder length hair, wearing a rust-colored sweater over a cream-colored blouse.See also a painting by Adolf Ziegler (2003.27) showing Gerda Wronker’s uncle Erich and his sister Alice, when they were children in Germany..Gerda Wronker was the granddaughter of Hermann Wronker, a German-Jewish department store owner who was killed in Auschwitz. Gerda, along with her brother Erich and their parents, Max and Irma Wronker, escaped Germany to Paris in 1933 and then to Cairo in 1936, eventually immigrating to the United States in the early 1940s.Henry da Pissiotto was a Jewish-Romanian artist who was also a trained dentist.Digital imag