Hildegard Naumann lived in Berlin and had to perform forced labor, as a Jew. Her sister was deported to Auschwitz in December 1942; her mother had committed suicide a day previously. Hildegard…
Luise Blau came from a Jewish family and lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf during the Second World War. Marrying the Danish citizen Kai Olsen in 1939 initially protected her from persecution. Her sister…
Lotte Paepcke, a Jewish law graduate, was married to the Protestant philologist Dr. Ernst Paepcke. Her marriage gave her temporary protection from deportation, but she had to perform forced labor in…
Elsbeth Raatz was a lecturer at a commercial college and lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg. At the request of a colleague, she took the Jewish sisters Alice and Charlotte Carlé into her home in early…
Melania Reifler, known as Mela, grew up in the Polish town of Drohobycz. When the Wehrmacht invaded in the summer of 1941, the 15-year-old had to perform forced labor in the Hyrawka camp outside the…
Margarete (Grete) Rönnfeldt worked as a maid for Lilli and Heinrich Ernsthaft in Berlin-Schöneberg in the 1920s, and looked after their son Harry. After her marriage, she lived with her family in…
The Jewish sales clerk Lotte Basch managed to escape through the rear door of her apartment in Berlin-Schöneberg on June 1, 1942, when her parents were arrested by the Gestapo. She hid in various…
The Jewish brothers Jurek and Michał Rozenek grew up near Kraków. Their family was moved into the Łódź ghetto in 1940 and in August 1944 taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Their…
The Jewish brothers Jurek and Michał Rozenek grew up near Kraków. Their family was moved into the Łódź ghetto in 1940 and in August 1944 taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Their…
After her husband Leo was forced to emigrate to Shanghai, Hildegard (Hilde) Schott lived with her parents Salomon and Henriette Jacoby in Cologne. At the beginning of 1942 they were put into the Fort…
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