Ilse Salberg's story reflects a keen drive to learn, impressive financial and personal resources and a photo eye that ventured up close with the male nude, into the dark eyes of inhuman beings and to a seat at a sensory banquet. Salberg developed as a photographer during the troubled Nazi era. She fled from Cologne, to Paris, to Sanary sur Mer, was interned at Gurs and finally fled to Switzerland on foot. She died of cancer in Bern when she was 46-years-old.