Lisel Haas was born in Mönchengladbach , Germany in 1898 to Jewish parents . She worked as a portrait photographer and photojournalist . Her special interests were urban childhood , travelling communities and religious practice . On 18 October 1938 she was issued with a decree from the Gladbach Police Authority stipulating that she must display a notice in the window of her photographic studio stating that it was a ' Jewish business ' with threat of punishment . Following Kristallnacht in November 1938 she abandoned her studio and left Germany with her father . Their application for asylum in the United States was turned down so they turned to Britain and arrived in Birmingham in December 1938
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Lisel Haas