This is Rose Henriques

Lady Rose Louise Henriques, née Loewe, (17 August 1889 – 1972) was a British artist and social and intervention worker in the East stop of London, where she was born and lived throughout her life.

Henriques was born in Stoke Newington to Orthodox Jewish parents. Her father, James Henry Loewe, was a bankers’ agent from Brighton though her mother, Emma née Immerwahr, had emigrated to London from Beuthen in Upper Silesia. At the age of 16, Rose was sent to stay taking into consideration relations in Breslau, now Wrocław, where she trained as a pianist and school to talk German. After her marriage to Basil Henriques in 1917 she decided to concentrate upon social work. The couple worked upon a number of joint enterprises together. From 1914 until 1948, they were the joint wardens of the St George’s Jewish Settlement in Stepney, later known as the Bernhard Baron St George’s Jewish Settlement. The agreement housed a number of social and scholastic clubs. During World War I, Rose Henriques worked as a nurse at Liverpool Street station and in World War II, she served as an air-raid warden and moreover organized an emergency feeding scheme for people whose homes had been destroyed in the Blitz. During the Blitz, she completed a large number of drawings and paintings of undertakings in the East End, many of which are now held by the Museum of London. At the Begin of World War II, Henriques applied to be active for the War Artists’ Advisory Committee, but it was only progressive in the court case that the Committee purchased one of her watercolours, Shelter Entrance from 1941.

When the accomplishment ended, Henriques went to Germany where she worked nearby a number of Jewish welfare groups at the former Bergen-Belsen captivation camp and subsequently at the manageable displaced persons camp. On returning to England, Henriques was the chair of the British Ose Society for promoting mental and visceral health and foundered Workrooms for the Elderly in east London. In the East End she promoted local musicians and artists and continued to paint London street scenes, largely concentrating on events in Aldgate, Whitechapel and Spitalfields and the local Jewish community. In 1947 the Whitechapel Art Gallery hosted an exhibition of her work, Stepney in War & Peace, while a new hundred of her works were shown at the similar venue as Vanishing Stepney in 1961.

In 1955 Basil Henriques was knighted and his wife became known as Lady Henriques. The local council renamed the street where the St George’s Jewish Settlement was located as Henriques Street in honour of the couple. Henriques published her autobiography, Fifty Years in Stepney in 1966. In 1964 Rose Henriques received the Henrietta Szold Award for services to the Jewish community and in 1971 was awarded the CBE for her social pretense in the East End. A large retrospective of her paintings was held in 2013 in Tower Hamlets. In May 2019, the British Government honoured Henriques similar to the British Hero of the Holocaust award.