Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- Summer 1947 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
50 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.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Medium-sized hardback photograph album containing black and white photographs of a summer holiday at Lake Tegel in Berlin; Hella’s parents; there are also aerial and other views of Berlin showing extensive war damage; exterior and interior views of the house in Spandau, Berlin in which Hella lived between November 1947 and July 1948 and of the house in Hannover in which she lived from August 1948; her sister, brother-in-law and nieces; the British Military Hospital in Hannover; a visit to the zoo; and a holiday on the Masch Lake. The images are dated and captioned and many of the individuals named or otherwise identified.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
No access until conserved.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- German
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
This item is fragile, with damage to front cover and several photographs becoming loose.