Why should the Aryan Perfect Child donate her photo to the Israel Memorial Museum when she is old?

Hersey Tuft shows off the magazine cover that featured "Perfect Aryan Baby"

According to the "Daily Mail" and "Daily Telegraph" in July Reported on the 4th. During World War II, Hitler advocated the so-called "theory of racial superiority", claiming that Aryans were a pure and noble race, and Jews were an inferior race that could be slaughtered at will. However, what is little known is that a Jew was killed. The baby's photo was actually chosen as the "Perfect Aryan Baby" for publicity purposes.

Now, the former fake "Perfect Aryan Baby" - Hersey Tufte, is 80 years old. At an advanced age, she recently handed over the precious magazine cover to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Israel, revealing this unknown secret for the first time.

According to reports, this actress became "Perfect Ya" by accident. The Jewish baby of "Baby Leanne" was named Hersey Taft, who was born in 1934.

According to Hersey's recollection, her parents moved from Latvia to Berlin, Germany in 1928, hoping to have a career Some achievements were made. However, the couple soon discovered that this was a wrong decision.

In the 1930s, the Nazi leader of Germany, Hitler, advocated the so-called "racial superiority theory" and claimed that Aryans were pure. After that, the Hersey family lived in the shadow of the Nazis and were always in fear.

In 1935, Hersey's family was in danger. Her mother took her, who was only 6 months old at the time, to Hans Ballin, a famous Berlin photographer at the time, and asked him to take a commemorative photo of Hersey's half-year-old. However, a month later, Hersey's mother. It was discovered that the photo of daughter Hersi was actually published on the cover of "Sonne ins Hause", a well-known Nazi family magazine that was very popular at the time.

After inquiring, I found out that the photographer Hans had done it on purpose. This photo of the Jewish baby Hersey entered a "Perfect Aryan Baby" competition organized by the Nazi government in the hope of embarrassing the Nazi authorities.

Hersey recalled that the photographer Hans told Her mother said: "I know your family is Jewish, but I purposely submitted this photo to the organizers of the competition to find the perfect Aryan baby. I just wanted to make the Nazis look stupid because they were ridiculous to begin with. ”

After that, Hersey’s photo of the “perfect Aryan baby” was widely printed on Nazi postcards. In this way, Hersey became the most famous baby in Germany overnight. However, due to Afraid that Hersey would be recognized on the street and asked about her identity, Hersey's parents had to keep her at home every day. Fortunately, the Nazis never discovered Hersey's true identity. In 1938, the Hersey family began their escape career. It was not until 1949 that they arrived in the United States and settled down in the United States.

Now, the former fake "Perfect Aryan Baby" Hersey is 80 years old. A few days ago, she handed over the precious magazine cover with her "perfect Aryan baby" photo to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Israel, revealing this unknown secret for the first time.