Gerda D.

Gerda D., a holocaust victim, was a shopworker with a disputed schizophrenic diagnosis. She was eventually sterilized and Nazi authorities forbid her to marry because of the sterilization. The place and date of this photograph is unknown.

This makes me wonder, was she forbidden to marry because she was sterilized, or was she forbidden to marry because she was simply Jewish and had a mental disorder?? Those people under such unfortunate circumstances such as Gerda were forced into a terrible cycle in which there was no way out.

— Karl-Bonhoeffer-Nervenklinik Fachkrankenhaus fuer Neurologie