Adelheid Silbermann grew up in a wealthy Jewish family in Berlin-Wedding. She had a sister, Therese, and two brothers. Franziska Bereit, the family’s non-Jewish maid, took particular care of the two…
Eva Eylenburg and her husband Gerhard, a Jewish businessman and former officer, had to perform forced labor for Siemens in Berlin from 1940. On January 14, 1943, Gerhard Eylenburg was arrested for…
Hildegard Spieth lived in Stetten in the Rems Valley, where her husband was a pastor. Since Helmut Spieth was drafted into military service in 1940, his wife had to run the parish office alone, with…
Mathilde (Hilde) Staberock worked as a porter in an office building in Berlin-Charlottenburg during the 1940s. From 1943 at the latest, the widow let several Jews living underground stay overnight in…
Heinz Steinberg and his mother Rosa moved to Berlin-Schöneberg in 1940, after Jews had been banned from living in Emden in East Frisia. Heinz Steinberg, who had to perform forced labor, met the coal…
The Jewish widow Rosa Steinberg was forced to sell her clothing store in Emden in East Frisia in 1938, due to National Socialist repressions. When Jews were banned from living in the town, Rosa…
From 1941, Lotte Kahle née Schloss had to perform forced labor in Berlin. In October 1942 she and her also Jewish partner Herbert Strauss narrowly evaded deportation and had to go underground. August…
Johanna (Hanne) Biermann was arrested in 1936, since her Jewish husband was active in the illegal KPD. She was released after claiming to have known nothing about her husband’s activities. After…
Willy Vorwalder lived with his family on the border to Switzerland. At the beginning of the war, he was working in Singen as an electrician, and was therefore exempted from military service. Via…
Ruth Zellermayer grew up in a Jewish family in Berlin. After attending commercial college, she worked in her parents’ gentlemen’s hat store. The shop was vandalized by SA men in November 1938 and…
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