The non-Jewish secretary Edith Berlow met the Jewish doctor Kurt Hirschfeldt in Berlin in 1936. They could not marry due to the Nuremberg Race Laws. To protect himself from deportation, Kurt Hirschfeldt went underground in November 1942, mainly hiding with Edith Berlow.
Through her friendship with Werner Scharff, Edith Berlow was involved in the work of the resistance group Community for Peace and Reconstruction. She distributed flyers and housed people in hiding. Her home in Berlin-Grunewald was open for Jews seeking help. In the summer of 1943, Berlow arranged a contact between the Frankenstein family, who were living underground, and Arthur Ketzer, who took them in for several months.
Edith Berlow and Kurt Hirschfeldt were finally able to marry in 1945. They emigrated to the United States in 1947. In 1993 Edith Hirschfeldt was honored by the Israeli Holocaust memorial center Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations, on the initiative of the Frankensteins.