European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 2, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9 v my amp y jt1 a v r t f a a a a ,4�?T a a s9. I a i. A amps de Reavis ninety year old Paula Brown right and her daughter Hortense James. German woman 90, looks Back in sadness by de Reavis staff writer Frankfurt West Germany a Paula Brown still can to hold Back the tears not 50 years after the nazis beat file exotic dancer Fatimah Bijou. Disappeared in Hamburg her husband to death not 25 years after her youngest daughter disappeared without a Trace. Brown who celebrated her 90th birthday in August sat in an easy chair in her apartment outside Frankfurt last week clutching a portrait of the family in her hands. Tears rolled Down her Cheeks. Pointing out her husband a tall Strong looking Black Man she said a you wont find a White person with As refined manners As my Martin. A i refuse to understand Why they murdered  Brown born in the Northern Hessen Village of misses in 1900, came to Frankfurt in the Early �?T20s to work As a chambermaid for a Champagne manufacturer. She later worked As Domestic help for the rothschilds the family of Bankers and financiers. A it was Good working for the rothschilds a she said. A i had a room for myself and often the Mother would come to my room to rest and escape the Racket made by her four  she met her future husband in a restaurant in 1923. Martin Brown had come to Germany in 1901 As a 12-year-old, when a wealthy Berlin banker kidnapped him from his native Liberia. A it was fashionable among the aristocracy in those Days to have a Moor in ones service a Paula Brown said. A Martin was often a guest at the Palace in Quot Berlin and he remembered Auguste Viktoria the last German Empress and the Queen of  her husbands favorite Story about the Empress was of the Winter Day she helped a warm his hands under a faucet and complained about irresponsible aristocrats taking people from their native  two years later the banker tired of his Mascot and turned the youth out into the streets to fend for himself. So the Young liberian travelled to Hessen where he worked briefly for a dentist later for the opel Auto works and still later As a chaff Martin and Paula Brown with their daughters Bijou left and Hortense. Feur for wealthy families in the Rhein main area. He married his wife in 1926 had two daughters Hortense and Bijou and was Able to enjoy life for Little More than a decade before the nazis began rounding up Blacks gypsies and others considered non aryan. One Day in 1939, Martin Brown was taken to police Headquarters a you wont find a White person with As refined manners As my Martin. I refuse to understand Why they murdered  a Paula Brown and beaten until he was close to death. Nazi doctors then used the liberian to test a chemical that left him without feeling in his limbs. A they Only had him four hours but it was enough to hospitalize him for the rest of his life which was a year a Paula Brown said. A the died in 1940.�?� fearing similar treatment for her daughters she hid the girls with Catholic nuns while she eked out a meager income Selling pretzels in the City. After the War Martin Browne a grave site was moved to the Honor Section of Frankfurt a main cemetery in recognition of his persecution by the nazis. Paula Brown was struck another blow in the mid-1960s when her youngest Bijou disappeared in Hamburg in what police officials still believe was foul play. Her body however was never found. By the late 1950s, Bijou had parlayed her exotic Black German looks into a successful career As a nightclub dancer and occasional film actress under the name Fatimah Bijou. In postwar jazz cellars most still topped with Little More than rubble she performed a the Beauty dance and other numbers in Silky costumes that exposed lots of leg. It floored people to hear that she was born in Frankfurt. Bijoux a exotic dancing fed the male fantasy of the times and she continued to fan those flames until she was Likely consumed by them herself. But there was a private Side to Bijou that the Public never saw her older sister said. A she was a wonderful woman who poured All of her love on my children because she had none of her own a said Hortense James who has two daughters from her marriage to an american Soldier. The american was later killed in an automobile Accident in France. Bijoux a greatest problem was her naivete James said. Bijoux a boyfriends exploited her and lived off of her until the Day she disappeared. A Bijou a Paula Brown said wistfully a Bijou was such a Beautiful child. What a life in be had a first Martin and then