The jurist Lothar Kreyssig was an early supporter of the Confessional Church, which brought him into conflict with the Nazi regime. In 1937 he became a judge at the district court in Brandenburg an…
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…
Gerda Lesser was a Jewish girl who lived with her parents in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. Her father died in 1940. She had to perform forced labor at the Teves works in the Reinickendorf district. Her…
Frieda Löser lived in Arno and Margarete Bach’s house in Niederschmiedeberg in the Ore Mountains region. She was widowed with a nine-year-old son. From April 16, 1945, the Bachs hid two Jewish…
Rudolf (Rudi) Löwenstein grew up in Cologne; his father was Jewish. Two of his siblings were able to emigrate before the war began. Around 1933, the family moved to Upper Bergisches Land, around 40…
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…
Luise Meier was a devout Catholic and thus rejected the Nazi regime. A widow, she hid the Jewish couple Herta and Felix Perls for a time in her home in the wealthy Berlin district of Grunewald in…
Maria and Albert Meier lived with their daughter Käthe in Lohmar, around 15 miles (25 km) southeast of Cologne. After 1933 Maria Meier maintained her contact to the Bernauer family, for whom she had…
On September 11, 1944, Karola Bernauer and her mother Nanny, who was Jewish, had to report to the Cologne-Müngersdorf assembly camp. Erwin Bernauer, Karola’s father, accompanied them although he was…
The doctor of law Kurt Müller was taken into “protective custody” in 1935 and could no longer work as an attorney after his release. As a reaction, he studied theology. In 1942 he took over as head…
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