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 brothers from Poland in a shed behind the building. Michał and Jurek Rozenek had escaped from a death transport. Frieda Löser and Arno Bach’s sister Luise Griesmann, who also lived in the building, also helped the fugitives. The situation was particularly dangerous because Michał Rozenek had contracted tuberculosis and his loud coughing could have given them all away.
On May 8, the brothers were liberated by the Soviet army. They then lived in Berlin, where Frieda Löser ran their household at times until the two men emigrated to Buenos Aires to join their sister in 1951.
In 1987 Frieda Lissack, as she was called after her second marriage, was honored along with the Bachs and Griesmann as Righteous Among the Nations. The ceremony was held in East Berlin in 1990.
Left to right: Jurek Rozenek, Frieda Löser, Luise and Alfred Griesmann, Margarete and Arno Bach, and Michał Rozenek in the garden of the house at number 40 Dorfstraße, Niederschmiedeberg, June 1945. Source: Privatbesitz/Private
Left to right: Jurek Rozenek, unknown woman and child, Frieda Löser, Michał Rozenek, Berlin, 1951. Source: Privatbesitz/Private
Frieda Löser with her son Eberhardt, Christmas 1944. Source: Privatbesitz/Private
Letter from the KPD district committee confirming Frieda Löser’s help for the Jewish Rozenek brothers, Annaberg-Buchholz, dated May 17, 1945. Source: Privatbesitz/Private
