Schmidt and Hesse family collection incl. dates

Photographs of Ruth Schmidt Hesse and her family and life in Germany from 1919-1937. Also included are photocopied pages from the book, 'Jüdische Familien in Meschede' concerning the Hesse family.Container List:1/1: Hess Family: Photographs of Ernst Hesse and his family. Photocopied pages of 'Jüdische Familien in Meschede' regarding the Hesse family.1/2: Photograph album documenting the life of Ruth Schmid, including her friends and school life; 1919-1937Ruth Schmidt Hesse, born Ruth Schmid, was born in Germany in 1919 and died in New York in 1991. She left for England with the help of 'Kindertransport' as an assistant teacher, changing the spelling of her last name from Schmid to Schmidt in the 1940s. By the late 1940s she had immigrated to Washington Heights, N.Y., where she met her husband, Ernst Hesse and had a son, Mark A. Hesse