After studying medicine, Anneliese Plumpe worked as a junior doctor at Robert Koch Hospital in Berlin-Moabit from the mid-1930s. She met the internist Georg Groscurth there, and they married in 1939.…
Therese (Resi) Silbermann grew up in a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin-Wedding. She had a sister, Adelheid, and two older brothers. Franziska Bereit, the family’s non-Jewish housemaid, took special…
Gerhard Hagemann lived with his wife Wally and their six children in Havelberg, a small town 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Berlin. He worked as an auditor in the episcopal ordinariate in Berlin. The…
Wally Hagemann lived with her husband Gerhard in Havelberg, 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Berlin. She ran a small local tobacconist store and raised their six children. Her unmarried sister Ella…
The agricultural expert Eberhard Helmrich lived in Berlin with his wife Donata. The couple both rejected the Nazi regime. In the summer of 1941, Helmrich was drafted to work in the German-occupied…
Donata Helmrich and her husband Eberhard rejected the Nazi regime and supported their Jewish friends wherever they could. In the summer of 1941, Eberhard Helmrich was drafted as an agricultural…
Lotte and Walter Heskel had to vacate their home in Berlin-Schöneberg in October 1942. Through the move, the Jewish couple met the removals man Erich Scheffler, who gave Lotte Heskel a job as a…
Walter and Lotte Heskel had to vacate their home in Berlin-Schöneberg in October 1942. Through the move, the Jewish couple met the removals man Erich Scheffler, who gave Lotte Heskel a job as a…
Lydia Hocke lived with her orphaned granddaughter Felicitas in Petershagen, east of Berlin. In March 1943 Chawa Berman knocked at her door. Persecuted as a Jew, she was actually looking for Hocke’s…
Josef Höfler lived with his family in the village of Gottmadingen in Baden, on the border to Switzerland. He was a skilled worker and thus exempted from military service. In 1943 he and his colleague…
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