Adolph Kurt Böhm, known as Mutz, fled Germany for Paris with his Jewish father Josef, his non-Jewish mother Maria, and his brother Gerhard in December 1933. Mutz took piano lessons, and began…
Walter Frankenstein lived in Berlin with his wife Leonie and their newborn son Peter-Uri. The couple had to perform forced labor. At the end of February 1943, they narrowly evaded “Operation Factory”…
The daughter of a Polish businessman and a Jewish-German mother, Stella Müller was born in Kraków in 1930. In March 1941 she and her family had to move into the Kraków ghetto. After it was brutally…
Richard Noack lived in Hennickendorf in Brandenburg; he met the Jewish woman Alice Löwenstein in passing through an acquaintance. In the fall of 1942, she sought him out and asked for accommodation,…
When the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland in 1939, the writer and journalist Miriam Hochberg was living in Kraków. As the German occupiers’ persecution of Jews increased, she obtained forged Polish…
The lawyer Henryk Woliński lived in Warsaw. After the city was captured by the Wehrmacht in 1939, he went underground. From February 1942 Woliński led the Jewish department of the Armia Krajowa (Home…
The Warsaw lawyer Tadeusz Rek was a leading activist in the Stronnictwo Ludowe (People’s Party). After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he supported the banned peasant movement Ruch Ludowy…
Lizzi Buttermilch, the daughter of the Jewish doctor Max Buttermilch, went underground in Berlin in 1942, as did her sister Eva Rosenfeld, four years older. Through the Catholic social worker…
Riva Zivcon lived in Liepāja. In July 1941 German troops occupied the city and its approximately 6,500 Jewish inhabitants were subject to persecution. Riva Zivcon and her one-year-old daughter Ada…
The actor and opera singer Marianne Golz lived in Prague with her husband Hans from 1933. The city was occupied by German troops in March 1939. Hans Golz was Jewish, and thus at risk during the…
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