Anna Hess ran a property management company in Berlin. Since some of the properties she managed belonged to Jewish owners, she was confronted directly with the National Socialists’ anti-Jewish…
Shortly after the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland in September 1939, the merchant Stanisław Chmielewski promised his partner Władysław Bergman that he would take care of Bergman’s Jewish relatives.…
The lawyer and former justice minister Dimitar Peshev was a member of the Bulgarian parliament and its vice-president from 1938. Peshev supported the government’s pro-German policy.
In 1940 Dimitar…
Marija Karčevska and her husband Jusefs Karčevskis lived in the center of Riga. The couple were janitors for the building they lived in, and had access to a number of vacant apartments there.
In…
Robert Finaly lived in La Tronche in southern France with his younger brother Gérald and their parents, who had fled from Austria. When Robert was almost three years old, his parents were deported to…
Tuvia Bielski grew up with eleven siblings on their parents’ farm. After completing his military service, he became a businessman and as of 1939 he worked for a company in Lida, Poland (today…
The Jewish teacher Käte Lasker lived in Berlin and went into hiding in the home of a non-Jewish acquaintance in January 1942. This woman obtained a train ticket to Offenburg and identity papers for…
The Jewish couple Sofie and Adolf Loebl lived in Karlsruhe with their daughters Ellen and Hannelore. Adolf Loebl had to give up his textiles business in November 1938 due to the repressions. The…
The Jewish couple Sofie and Adolf Loebl lived in Karlsruhe with their daughters Ellen and Hannelore. Adolf Loebl had to give up his textiles business in November 1938 due to the repressions. The…
During the war, the police officer Hugo Mäker lived with his wife Martha in Berlin-Schöneberg. He was also the janitor for their building at Eisenacher Straße 40. He was a longstanding friend of…
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