Early Life and Education
Tudor-Hart's father was a social democrat who was born into the Jewish community in Vienna, but had renounced his faith and become an atheist. He opened the first social democratic bookshop in Vienna (later to become a publishers). Tudor-Hart's brother Wolfgang Suschitzky described their father as "a great man. I realised that later on in life, not so much when I saw him every day. But, I met interesting people, some of his authors who came and had lunch with us or met people who came to his shop." Suschitzky recalled boyhood memories of the family excitement that greeted the Russian Revolution in 1917. Tudor-Hart studied photography at the Bauhaus in Dessau, but worked in Vienna as a Montessori kindergarten teacher. Her brother also became a well-known photographer and cinematographer in Britain. He cited his sister as an influence on his decision to pursue an artistic career over a scientific one.
An anti-fascist activist and Communist, she saw photography as a tool for disseminating her political ideas. She married medical doctor Alex Tudor-Hart, who belonged to a well-known radical and artistic family. The couple fled to London, England in 1933, so that she could avoid prosecution and persecution in Austria for her Communist activities and Jewish background.
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