Lepers, Sikonge, Unyamwezi, Tanzania, 1933

"Sikonge. Die Aussätzigen in ihrem Lager, 17 wohnen dort. Eine Frau war nur diesen Morgen gerade da zur Behandlung" ("Sikonge. The lepers at their camp, 17 live there. A woman was there only this morning for treatment"). A group of eighteen Africans photographed in front of a building. Paul Albert Theile, born in 1908 in Niesky (Germany), was a theologian and preacher. He was no missionary in Africa, but went on an educational journey to East Africa in 1933 and to South Africa in 1934. He was a mission deputy in Montmirail (France) from 1934 till 1938. In 1948 he married Susette Schmidt. After 1962 he was director of the Moravian Church in Switzerland. He died in 1995 in Birsfelden (near Basel / Switzerland).