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A new exhibition at the Wiener Library in London - one of the world's foremost institutes for study of the Holocaust – explores the photos of Gerty Simon.

A firm fixture in the Weimar Berlin of the 1920s, Gerty Simon took photographs of the great and good from Albert Einstein and Max Liebermann to singer Lotte Lenya and composer Kurt Weill, as well as a very young Judith Kerr (author of 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit'). Escaping Nazi Germany before World War 2, she re-established herself in London, where she took photographs of such figures as art historian Sir Kenneth Clark, actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft and politician Aneurin Bevan.

Her work records in intimate detail the lives of key figures in pre-war Berlin and London, yet Gerty Simon didn't return to work as a photographer after World War Two.

Georgia Mann went along to the exhibition to see the photographs, the first time they've been displayed publicly in more than eighty years.

Produced by Michael Rossi