Dorothy Bohm was born Dorothea Israelit in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) in 1924 into an assimilated, affluent and cultured Jewish milieu. In 1932 her father chose to move the family to Memel (now Klaipeda) in Lithuania, but following the Nazi occupation of Memelland in March 1939, her parents decided to send their daughter, aged 14, to the safety of England, where she arrived in June 1939. She wasn’t to see her parents and sister again for over twenty years. Image above (appears as detail): Dorothy Bohm, Venice Carnival, 1987 © Dorothy Bohm Archive https://fritzaschersociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/08-Self-Portrait-1942-age-18-193x300.jpg Dorothy Bohm, Self-Portrait, 1942, age 18. © Dorothy Bohm Archive https://fritzaschersociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/07-Ascona-1948-238x300.jpg Dorothy Bohm, Ascona, 1948. © Dorothy Bohm Archive After a year at school in Sussex, she studied photography in [...]