El Libro de Oro de Bébé. Nacimiento de René Bernardo Redlich [baby scrapbook].

(URUGUAY)

21st December, 1942 - 13th May

Montevideo

1947

Printed with extensive manuscript entries, accompanied by numerous original photographs, illustrations and newspaper clippings. Text mainly in Spanish, also German and occasional Yiddish and Hebrew.

Lovingly created baby scrapbook for René Bernardo Redlich (born December 21, 1942), son of Rudolf and Sonia Redlich (neé Rosenman) of Montevideo, originally from Breslau (Wrocław). Entries include birth congratulations, extensive list of presents, his Brith Milah, photographs for every month of the first year of his life and then annually, his first teeth, his first steps, his first words, first birthday, first trip, first visit to the synagogue, first visit to the theater. Includes a birthday poem in German by his grandfather Walter Redlich (1880-1943).