Family portrait of the Gottschalk family; Hannover, Germany.

Front Row (l-r): Frau Steinfeld (mother of Elizabeth Gottschalk nee Steinfeld and Hela Steinfeld), Fritz Gottschalk, Karl Gottschalk, Henrietta Gottschalk nee Rothschild (mother of Fritz, Karl, Anna and Ernst), Anna Catsenstein nee Gottschalk (twin of Karl Gottschalk), and Elizabeth Gottschalk; Back Row (l-r): Hela Steinfeld (sister of Elizabeth Gottschalk nee Steinfeld), Therese Gottschalk nee Molling (wife of Fritz), Leo Catsenstein (husband of Anna), Elizabeth Gottschalk nee Steinfeld (wife of Karl), Ernst Gottschalk, and Henny Molling nee Meyerhof (mother of Therese Gottschalk nee Molling)

Reiss family portrait on the occasion of the wedding of Harry Gould to Eva Fantl; Royal Connaught Hotel, Hamilton, Ontario.

Standing l-r: George? son of Max Reiss?, Max Reiss, Harry Gould, Moritz Reiss, Joe Reiss, and Herbert Reiss; Seated l-r: Trude Reiss (wife of Herbert), Else Reiss (mother of Joe), Lily Friedlander Gould, Eva Fantl Gould, Trude Reiss (wife of Joe), and Marta Reiss (wife of Max)

Studio portrait of the women of the Oppenheimer family.

l-r: Sisters Adele Oppenheimer-Nathan, Thekla Oppenheimer-Benedick, Jenny Oppenheimer-Frank and their mother Fanny Oppenheimer

Reiss family portrait on the occasion of the wedding of Harry Gould to Eva Fantl; Royal Connaught Hotel, Hamilton, Ontario.

Standing l-r: George? son of Max Reiss?, Max Reiss, Harry Gould, Moritz Reiss, Joe Reiss, and Herbert Reiss; Seated l-r: Trude Reiss (wife of Herbert), Else Reiss (mother of Joe), Lily Friedlander Gould, Eva Fantl Gould, Trude Reiss (wife of Joe), and Marta Reiss (wife of Max)

To the Mothers of the Twelve Thousand.

The size of the work and the printed title suggests, that this is a poster. It bears the emblem R.J.F., for the sponsoring organization, Reichsbund Juedischer Frontsoldaten or National Organization of the Jewish Front-line Soldiers. The mothers of "The twelve thousand" refers to the Jewish soldiers killed during World War I, when reminding Germans of the patriotism and sacrifices of German Jews, seemed important in view of the discrimination they were confronted with at the time, in 1935.