Carola S. Trier Collection 1910-2000

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Carola S. Trier Collection 1910-2000

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The Carola S. Trier collection consists of the personal documents of Carola S.Trier. The bulk of the collection consists of her memoirs, covering a period from 193 to 1942. The collection also includes Carola S. Trier'spersonal and official correspondence and personal documents, as well as notes and notebooks by her father, Eduard Strauss. Also included clippings,mostly from The New York Times and Aufbau.

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Naydorf, Marcel

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Strauss, Eduard

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Trier, Carola S.

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Carola Strauss Trier (1913-2000) was born in Germany in 1913. She and her family lived and worked in Europe until the Second World War, when she was sent to a Nazi-run detention camp in France. She escaped and immigrated to New York in 1942. Carola married Edgar Trier and supported herself in the United States as a dancer, acrobat, and most notably a roller-skating contortionist, before a devastating injury brought her to Joseph and Clara Pilates, founders of the Pilates method of exercise and s...