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Title
Date(s)
- 1925-1951 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
39 pp.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Hella Anna Maria Scholz was born in Berlin on 29 December 1928 as the younger of the two daughters of Bruno Scholz, a merchant in building materials, and Klara née Kaiser. She was educated in Berlin. In 1942, she met Günther Junge, a pilot with the German Luftwaffe. They remained a couple until Günther’s death in an air battle on 27 January 1944.
After the war, Hella worked as a laboratory assistant for a British military medical unit in Hannover. Here, she met her future husband, an Englishman named William Fuller. They married on 1 January 1951 at the Ploughley & Bullingdon Register Office in Oxford, and in February of that year Hella became a British citizen. She and her husband lived in Oxfordshire and had no children. Hella later moved to Penarth in Glamorgan, Wales, where she died on 31 January 2003.
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Large clothbound hardcover album containing mainly black and white photographs from Hella’s childhood and youth. They feature Hella as a baby, birthday parties, school outings, her sister and parents, her family home (exterior and interior), her confirmation and graduation and assorted studio portraits from the 1940s. A second set of images has been added upside down from the rear. These feature Hella’s friends, including Günther Junge and members of his family. The images have been dated and captioned and almost all individuals have been named. For loose inserts found inside the album, see P14/7/2/53, 60 and 61.
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Conditions governing access
No access until conserved.
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Language of material
- German
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
This item is fragile, with several photographs becoming loose.