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Marion Levenson Ross

Marion Levenson Ross earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. She is a social worker at the Jewish Family and Children’s Service in Newton, Massachusetts.

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Lotte Jacobi

After leaving Nazi Germany in 1935, Lotte Jacobi became a renowned photographer in New York as she captured intimate portraits of prominent Americans such as Robert Frost, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Paul Robeson. Jacobi was highly interested in politics and an active delegate to the Democratic National Convention. She was known for engaging her subjects in rich conversation as she photographed them.