Elisabeth and Ludwig Weeg ran a farm in Lohmar, around 15 miles (25 km) southeast of Cologne. They had three children.
On the request of their friends Albert and Maria Meier from Lohmar, they took…
Elisabeth and Ludwig Weeg ran a farm in Lohmar, around 15 miles (25 km) southeast of Cologne. They had three children.
On the request of their friends Albert and Maria Meier from Lohmar, they took…
Monika Hagemann lived with her parents Gerhard and Wally Hagemann and five older siblings in Havelberg, a small town 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Berlin. Her aunt Ella Friedlieb also lived in the…
The Polish Jewish Zweig family had to move into the Kraków ghetto in 1941. Zacharias Zweig and his three-year-old son Stefan Jerzy were transported to Buchenwald concentration camp at the beginning…
The Jewish dressmaker Chawa Berman moved from Warsaw to Berlin in 1919. Separated from her husband, she lived in the Mitte district with her three children. On February 27, 1943, Berman, who had to…
Ernst Ludwig (Lutz) Ehrlich, a student at the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin until 1940, lived opposite the synagogue on Levetzowstrasse, which the Gestapo began using as an assembly…
Felix Luxenburg was a Jewish architect who started his own real-estate company in Berlin in 1922, but was banned from running it in 1937. At the end of 1939, he was drafted into forced labor at the…
Ilse Baumgart was able to take her final school examinations in 1942 in Berlin. Although the Nuremberg race laws classed her as a “first-degree Mischling” due to her Jewish mother, she volunteered as…
The unmarried Jewish dentist Dr. Erich Oppenheimer practiced on Uhlandstraße in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. In February 1943 he went underground to evade deportation, hiding in various places.
His first…
Henriette and Salomon Jacoby lived with their daughter Hildegard Schott in Cologne. The department store they owned was expropriated under the Nazi regime. At the beginning of 1942 they were put into…
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