Antonie Boronow-Kaliski, known as Toni, lived in Berlin with her husband Georg and her mother. She worked as a secretary in a lawyer’s office. Her husband was a civil servant for the Jewish Community.
On May 18, 1942, a resistance group carried out an arson attack on the Nazi propaganda exhibition “The Soviet Paradise.” As a reaction, the SS shot 250 Jewish hostages, including Georg Kaliski. When Toni Boronow-Kaliski learned she was to be deported to Theresienstadt, she went underground. She hid in the home of Gudula Clay for the first eight months.
Using a forged identity card in the name of Lisa Zibulski, Boronow-Kaliski traveled to Alsace on February 15, 1943, intending to make her way from there to Switzerland. The plan failed, and she returned to Berlin.
Through Magdalena Heilmann, she met Else Klahn, who hid her in her apartment for some time. In early August 1943, a former colleague took her to the Berlin cigar seller Otto Wedding and his wife Lina. In November 1943, Toni Boronow-Kaliski was able to register as an alleged victim of bomb damage. She moved in with Henny Reissig on December 6, 1943, where she experienced the end of the war.
Toni Boronow-Kaliski’s identity card as an official Victim of Fascism, Berlin, issued July 1946. Source: Landesarchiv Berlin, B Rep. 078, BEG Nr. 11.434, PrV-Teil
Toni Boronow-Kaliski’s identity card as an official Victim of Fascism, Berlin, issued July 1946. Source: Landesarchiv Berlin, B Rep. 078, BEG Nr. 11.434, PrV-Teil
Toni Boronow-Kaliski’s confirmation of Magdalena Heilmann’s help for persecuted Jews, Berlin, May 9, 1949. Source: Landesarchiv Berlin, B Rep. 078, BEG Nr. 13.977
