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Sue Kafka Ellis

Born in Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia) in 1941. She and her husband rented 7A Castle Street in the mid 1960s and befriended the Edes who were living in Kettle's Yard. They would occasionally house-sit for Jim and Helen. She borrowed a Henri Gaudier-Brzeska drawing for their flat. After Cambridge, she moved to Munich in 1972 but kept in touch with the Edes. Jim asked her to photograph the Gaudier-Brzeska works in Paris. At the time of interview she was living in Cottenham, near Cambridge.

Interviewed: 2008-07-31
By: Robert Wilkinson
Length: 49 mins
Media: On 2 tracks on CD with summary
Interview id: MYKY17


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