Elsa Ackermann worked as a teacher at various schools in Berlin from 1911 until her retirement in 1940. She and her brother Hans, both devout Protestants, rejected National Socialism.
In November…
Rosina Pardo lived in Thessaloniki (Greece) with her family. Her father Chaim Pardo ran an electrical installation business, which was damaged by bombs after the Italian offensive in 1940.
German…
Already holding a doctorate in law, Werner Becker began studying Catholic theology in 1926, was ordained as a priest in 1932, and started work as a student chaplain at the University of Marburg. In…
Georg Bruns was a police sergeant working at the Richard-Wagner-Platz precinct in Berlin-Charlottenburg. An opponent to the regime, he supported his Jewish friend Adolf Rosen and his family with…
Elisabeth Schwerdfeger worked for Siemens in Berlin from 1934. She was opposed to National Socialism, as was the police sergeant Georg Bruns, whom she married in 1939. Their two children were born in…
The Catholic theologian Josef Gülden joined the Oratory of Saint Philipp Neri, a community of priests at the Church of Our Lady in the Lindenau district of Leipzig, in 1934. On November 13, 1938, the…
Theodor Gunkel fought in World War I as a soldier. He began studying theology in 1919 and was ordained as a priest in 1926. He was one of the co-founders of the Oratory of Saint Philipp Neri. From…
Elsbeth Rosen and her family moved to Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1940, having had to give up their restaurant in Pomerania since they were Jewish. From July 1941 she performed forced labor for the…
Kalman Linkimer worked as a teacher in the port town of Liepāja, which was occupied by German troops in July 1941. Like all Jewish residents, he was subject to persecution. Kalman Linkimer survived…
Stefania Podgórska grew up in a Catholic farming family. She began working in a store owned by the Jewish couple Lea and Izaak Diamant in Przemyśl in 1938.
In 1939 the Wehrmacht occupied parts of…
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