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The photographer told them that he had been asked to submit his 10 best pictures for a beauty (1.____) run by the Nazis. So were 10 other outstanding photographers and the course assistants to registrars and student - loan officers. But he sent in Hessy’s picture. “But you knew my Hessy is a Jewish child,” the mother (2.____). The photographer explained, “There had been a (3.____) to find the perfect example of the Aryan race to further Nazi philosophy. “I wanted to allow myself the pleasure of this joke. And you see, I was right. Of all the babies, they picked this baby as the perfect Aryan.” “I know, ” the mother said, “(4.____) to all, they picked my baby as the perfect Aryan.” Family stories are always prone to exaggeration — but this (5.____) to be true. Taft has a large (6.____) of photographs that show her in (7.____) publications and cards. “I can laugh about it now,” said Taft, now a chemistry professor at St. John’s University in New York, “But if the Nazis had known who I really was, I wouldn’t be alive.” The parents were equally shocked and “(8.____) at the irony of it all.” In the weeks afterward, the picture was everywhere. One time, Taft said, her aunt went to a store to buy a birthday card for her first birthday in May of 1935, only to find a card with Taft’s baby picture on it. “Without saying a single word, my aunt bought the postcard, which my parents brought with them (9.____) the years.” Eventually, the family (10.____) Europe and found (10.____) in Cuba for years before immigrating to the United States. In the late 1940s, the Levinsons family settled in New York City, and Hessy got married and became Hessy Levinsons Taft.
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