Otto Jogmin was the custodian for the buildings Wielandstraße 17 and 18 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. His work meant he knew the residents well, and they were aware he rejected National Socialism. After the November pogrom, the buildings’ Jewish tenants turned to him for advice. Jogmin obtained medications and food for them and gave them permission to take in friends and acquaintances who were at risk. Jogmin’s wife and foster daughter moved to the countryside to evade the air raids on the city.
In mid-1943 he took Margarete Asch into his apartment, pretending she was his aunt. He hid her for two years. Jogmin housed other Jews in basement rooms only accessible by him, as custodian. He turned the rooms into fairly livable hiding places. There was also an opening there into the neighboring building, which meant the people in hiding could flee next door in the event of a raid.
Most persecuted people did not have food ration cards. Otto Jogmin made regular trips to the countryside around Berlin and obtained cheese, bacon, and flour from a shepherd friend.
The Israeli Holocaust memorial center Yad Vashem honored Otto Jogmin as Righteous Among the Nations in 2011.