The Jewish banker Hans Schlamm married Johanna Isenthal in 1932. The couple lived in Berlin. From September 7, 1939, Hans Schlamm had to perform forced labor constructing roads.
In early December 1942, he and his wife, who was defined by the “Nuremberg race laws” as a “1st-grade Mischling,” were arrested by the Gestapo and taken to the Große Hamburger Straße assembly camp. Shortly later, the couple were released and told they should expect to be arrested again.
To evade deportation, Hans Schlamm went underground on February 28, 1943. He found a hiding place with Anna Rabow at Forststraße 28 in Berlin-Zehlendorf. His wife moved in with her non-Jewish mother and supported her husband with food. Hans Schlamm experienced his liberation in Anna Rabow’s home. He and his wife stayed in Berlin after the war.