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Title
Date(s)
- 1946-1947 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
49 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
Medium-sized clothbound hardback photograph album containing black and white photographs of aspects of Hella’s life. These include images of the house in which she lived in 1946-1947, the Jäger family in Spandau (a suburb of Berlin); the British Military Hospital and its staff in Berlin; her mother and her niece Helga; London and her future husband; a sports festival in Hakenfelde in the summer of 1947; water polo; visit to the zoo and a circus; and Hella with an German Shepherd. The images are dated and many contain captions, some in English.
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Conditions governing access
No access until conserved.
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Language of material
- German
- English
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
This item is fragile, with some photographs becoming loose.