Mia Aachen, neé Bluem, choose another strategy to overcome the hardships of post-war Cologne. She joined a Cologne based dancing company and a variety show as well. This decision was made to some disapproval of her father and her brother. Later on she settled in California and had a family of her own.
The pictures that came into the pool of the familys’s photographs are from a variety show in Teheran dated November 1952. [Mind the funny detail on the photo above: two persons are half visible behind the curtain.]
Imagine the number of whip lashes a woman like Mia would certainly receive in today’s Mullah Iran…