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Name |
Anna (Anita Bild) Lelewer |
Birth |
Poland |
Gender |
Female |
Death |
- Her memoirs were posthumously published in 2018 as A Cherry Dress. She was 75.
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Person ID |
I80947 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
30 Jun 2022 |
Family 1 |
Fritz Bild |
Marriage |
- Her career took "Anita," as she called herself from now on, from Switzerland to Egypt, though by the time of Hitler's annexation of Austria, she worked as a dancer in Linz's City Theatre. Being dismissed from the theatre as a "non-Aryan," she applied for and received a visa to work in England as a chambermaid. Through friends, she was persuaded to enter a marriage of convenience in order to avoid deportation. It was during this period that she met her future husband, fellow Austrian refugee Fritz Bild.
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Family ID |
F3540 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
30 Jun 2022 |
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Notes |
- Known as Anita Bild - was she married previously?
The Viennese dancer Anita Bild fled to England in early 1939 on a housemaid visa, where she was able to perform again thanks to a sham marriage. She organized the emigration of her parents to London, who were accommodated in a refugee home whose manager Fritz Bild she later married. She became known as ?Anita Douglas ? The Viennese Nightingale? and later on the BBC. Anita Bild wrote her memoirs for her family in 1991. The memoirs are accompanied by scientific articles by renowned experts. They contextualize the dance career before and in exile, the situation of domestic workers in England and Anita Bild's marriage of convenience and draw biographical sketches of Anita's father, the lawyer Georg Lelewer, the musician Franz Eugen Klein and her fake husband Donald Douglas.
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