Notes and references
Notes
- ↑ Eva Hyde(néeEva Heymann; 1910–1953), a Munich-born actress who was exiled in 1937, was the third wife of composer Werner R. Heymann, her first husband whom she divorced in 1940. She was a distant cousin of Werner Heymann. In 1952, she married artist Klaus Brill (1913–2007).
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