Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon

Place: Berlin

Born: 1900

Death: 1944

Biography:

Yva, whose real name was Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon, was a German Jewish photographer born in Berlin in 1900. She became renowned for her dreamlike, multiple exposed images and became a leading photographer in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. When the Nazi Party came to power, she was forced into working as a radiographer. She was deported by the Gestapo in 1942 and murdered, probably in the Majdanek concentration camp during World War II.