During the war, Luise Kulka and her husband lived at Bamberger Straße 51 in Berlin-Schöneberg. Her husband Walter ran a removals company founded by his father Willy. In 1939 the Jewish sisters Ilse…
Salomon (Sally) Nooitrust lived with his wife Hubertine and their three children in Düsseldorf. Under the Nazis, the businessman was initially protected from deportation through his non-Jewish wife.…
Emanuel Nooitrust lived with his wife Emma and their three children in Essen, where the Jewish businessman was a travelling fabric salesman. Under the Nazis, he was initially protected from…
From the beginning of the war, Heinz Odenthal lived with his wife Josephine and their daughter in Cologne. Although the Catholic teacher rejected the regime, he joined the NSDAP in 1944.
The…
From the beginning of the war, Josephine Odenthal lived with her husband and their daughter in Cologne. Heinz Odenthal worked as a Catholic teacher in the public school system. Although he rejected…
The Jewish seamstress Alice Löwenthal lived with her children from her first marriage, Ruth and Brigitte Süssmann, in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. Her husband was arrested in February 1943 and deported to…
Luise Nickel came from a modest family background. She and her husband Fritz were early activists in the SPD, and after the First World War in the KPD. Fritz Nickel died in 1922.
When Luise Nickel…
Leonora Grünne was an actor, as was her husband Friedrich. From working on stage in Vienna, they were acquainted with a Berlin actress, Margarete Gahrmann. During the Second World War the Jewish…
After the German invasion of Lviv in 1941, the social worker Władysława Choms joined the Polish resistance organization Związek Walki Zbrojnej, which waged an armed struggle against the occupiers.…
The Jewish couple Grete and Heinz Rosenbaum lived in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Grete’s mother was deported from their shared apartment to Theresienstadt on November 5, 1942. A month later, the Rosenbaums…
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