Moshe and Nora Tavor collection

Nora Tavor, née Heller, widowed Baum, was born 1906 in Yokohama/Japan, the daughter of her Austrian parents, Victor heller and Else, née Hahn. She moved to Prague in 1910 and emigrated in 1939 to Palestine, where she worked as a journalist and government employee.

Nora Tavor’s mother, the concert singer Elsa Hahn (divorced Heller, divorced Jundt) was born 1880 in Prague. She escaped 1939 to France, but was deported from Lyons to Auschwitz, where she perished.

Nora Tavor’s first husband, Leo Baum, was born 1909 in Prague, where he later worked for Prager Tageblatt. After his emigration to Palestine in 1939 he worked for the British government in Palestine and in Sudan, before he was killed in 1946 in the explosion at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.

Nora Tavor’s second husband, Moshe Tavor, formerly Fritz Tauber, was born 1903 in Olmütz (today Olomouc in the Czech Republic). He worked as a journalist in Prague until his emigration to Palestine in 1939, where he worked as a publisher and editor of various newspapers. 1963-1966 he was press and cultural attaché at the Israel Mission in Cologne/West Germany, and then, until his death, as Israel correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Moshe Tavor died 1978 in Jerusalem.