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(HERZL, THEODOR) BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF HERZL'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, MARGUERITE HERZL . Republique Francaise. Ville de Paris. Bulletin de Naissance. Printed document with manuscript entries recording the birth of Marguerite Herzl, daughter of Theodore Herzl and Julie Naschauer. One page. Folds, few small tears at edges. 4to. Paris, 31st March, 1900.  BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF THEODORE HERZL'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, MARGUERITE HERZL .     An official copy of the birth certificate of Marguerite Herzl, Theodore Herzl’s youngest daughter who was born in 1893. This birth certificate was issued in Paris in 1900.     Marguerite Herzl (“Trude, ” 1893-1943) was the youngest of Herzl’s three children. Like her siblings, Trude was burdened by severe bouts of depressive illness that required repeated hospitalization throughout her life. She married Richard Neumann, a man 17 years her senior. The Nazis sent Trude and Richard to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where they were killed.      PROVENANCE: Yitzchak Eisig Torczyner (1861-1933) and then by descent within the family.      An early Zionist activist, Yitzchak Eisig Torczyner (1861-1933) was a friend and confidant of Theodore Herzl. Herzl and other members of the Hebrew national renaissance and early Zionist movement were frequent visitors at the home of Eisig Torczyner in Vienna. Eisig Torczyner’s son Menachem Nuchem Torczyner (1885-1948), was active in the Zionist movement in Belgium. Menachem Nuchem’s son Jacques Torczyner (1914-2013), was similarly active as a Zionist, in the United States. This document was safeguarded for well more than a century within the family as a treasured keepsake relating to the founder of political Zionism and his family.     It remains unclear why Herzl required a French-issued birth certificate for his daughter seven years following her birth. It is also unclear how Yitzchak Eisig Torczyner came to be in possession of the document. Theodore Herzl’s papers (both family and political) reside at the Central Zionist Archive in Jerusalem.     See: http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/en/collections/HerzlArchive/Pages/Herzldocs.aspx