In the summer of 2008, I received several photographs from Great Britain from Renate Easton, a great-niece of Helene and Max Herrmann. Helene Herrmann, née Schlesinger, born in Berlin in 1877, received her university degree by auditing courses in German studies, philosophy and art history at Berlin’s Friedrich Wilhelm University. She began her studies in 1898, ten years before women were allowed to matriculate at Prussian universities. In the same year, she married theater scholar Max Herrmann. Aft er fi nishing her doctorate, Helene Herrmann worked as a teacher and freelanced as a literary critic, while her husband taught at the university, today Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Aft er National Socialist policies forced Max Herrmann into retirement in 1933, the couple, like all Jewish Germans, experienced increasing discrimination but rejected the idea of going into exile. In early September 1942, their assets were seized by the state and they were deported to Theresienstadt, where Max Herrmann died in November. Two years later, Helene Herrmann and her sister were deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.