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A Jewish baby became the face of Nazi Aryan propaganda. Her life story outlasted the lie.

Hessy Levinsons Taft, a Jewish woman whose baby photo was selected in a competition to represent the Aryan race in Nazi ...

Hessy Levinsons Taft, Jewish Baby on Cover of Nazi Magazine, Dies at 91

Without her parents’ knowledge, her portrait was entered as a prank in a contest in 1935 to represent the ideal Aryan infant ...

Jewish woman once held up by Nazis as ideal Aryan baby dead at 91

Born in Berlin in 1934 to Latvian Jewish parents Jacob and Polin Levinson, Taft was photographed when she was 6 months old by ...