WOMEN IN THE BACKROUND OF HISTORY

In July 1937, in a critical battle in the Spanish Civil War, a 26-year-old Jewish girl who had fled Nazi persecution became the first female photojournalist killed in a war.

But that young woman, named Gerda Taro, remained forgotten for decades, and is perhaps still unknown to many.

Not so, however, is the name she herself helped to create: Robert Capa.

Two talents reunited in Paris

Gerda Taro was born Gerda Pohorylle to a Jewish family in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1910 and educated in Leipzig. She went to Paris in 1933. It was there that, three years before her death, he met a young Hungarian photographer, also of Jewish origin, named Andre Friedmann.

 Friedmann became Robert Capa, a wealthy and successful American photographer who had never been to Europe, and so no one knew anything about him. Both signed their photographs as Robert Capa, so little is known which ones belong to which.

https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-47693745

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