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2 unusual facts about Nelly Neppach


Nelly Neppach

On the night of 7/8 May 1933, Neppach, obviously in despair because of the increasing discrimination and prosecution of Jewish people in Germany and her isolation from tennis in particular, took her life in her flat at Berlin using Barbital and town gas.

Robert Neppach

In May 1933, his first Jewish wife Nelly, a successful tennis player, took her life because of the discrimination and prosecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.



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