My journey ends here...
KNOPF Hans
Date of birth : January 23, 1907, Berlin.
Date of death : November 2, 1967, Texas (
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His parents were Paul Alfred Knopf (August 17, 1875, Berlin-August 18, 1942, ghetto of Riga, Latvia)
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) and Margarete Elsa Löwenberg (August 24, 1884, Berlin-August 15, 1942, Berlin)(
). He emigrated to the USA on March 10, 1937
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.Photojournalist and advertising photographer, he was best known for his photos of yacht races.
Declaration of Intention
and Petition for Naturalization November 16, 1937 
.He was naturalized on November 24, 1944
.In 1945 he married Amy Osborne Vanderbilt (July 22, 1908, New York-December 28, 1974, New York)
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). They divorced in 1954.
On September 3, 1954 he married Louise Emilia Bechaut Blumenau (born in 1920, Brussells)
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).Link with Marilyn
On February 22, 1956, Marilyn gave an interview to Elsa Maxwell at the New York Ambassador Hotel, and Knopf
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In March 1956, Marilyn was interviewed by Pete Martin for the le Saturday Evening Post
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