Johanna Novicka grew up in a farming family with six siblings in Eleja. In 1920 she married the dock worker Jānis Lipke and the couple moved to Riga. During the German occupation from the summer of 1941, Johanna Lipke…
Johanna Sedule lived with her husband, the janitor Robert Seduls, and their daughters Indra and Irīda in Liepāja. In July 1941 German troops occupied the Latvian city, using violence against the Jewish population.…
Johanna Eck lived in Berlin-Tiergarten and worked as a secretary. Around the turn of 1942/43, she hid a Jewish acquaintance, Heinz Guttmann, in her apartment and in January 1943 arranged quarters for him with her…
Johanna Altmann lived with her parents and her sister Susanne in Vienna. After Austria’s annexation, they fled to Krakow, continuing to Soviet-occupied Lemberg in the fall of 1939. When the Wehrmacht invaded in June…
…From 1937, Johanna Kreyssig lived on a country estate in Hohenferchesar with her family. Her husband Lothar was a judge at the nearby district court in Brandenburg an der Havel, dealing with custodianship matters. When…
Johanna Oblöser joined the Caritas Socialis convent in Vienna as Sister Norberta in 1923. From 1939 to 1947 she headed the Catholic Women’s Association House in Berlin-Charlottenburg, where around 250 women and 50…
Johanna (Hanne) Biermann was arrested in 1936, since her Jewish husband was active in the illegal KPD. She was released after claiming to have known nothing about her husband’s activities. After serving a term in a…
Johanna (Hanne) Putzrath lived in Berlin from 1937. While her son and former husband were able to emigrate, she did not succeed in doing so. When threatened with deportation on January 26, 1943, she escaped to the home…
…The janitor Robert Seduls lived in Liepāja with his wife Johanna and their daughters Indra and Irīda. In July 1941 German troops occupied the city. Shocked by the mass shootings of Jews in Liepāja, Seduls promised his…
…Susanne Altmann lived with her parents and her sister Johanna in Vienna. After Austria’s annexation they fled to Krakow and continued to Soviet-occupied Lemberg in the fall of 1939. When the Wehrmacht invaded in June…
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