After studying medicine, Anneliese Plumpe worked as a junior doctor at Robert Koch Hospital in Berlin-Moabit from the mid-1930s. She met the internist Georg Groscurth there, and they married in 1939. The couple lived in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
In July 1943 Georg Groscurth was among the founders of the European Union resistance group. Despite having two small sons , the Groscurths took in a Jewish woman from Frankfurt, Elisabeth von Scheven, for several weeks during the same period.
When the European Union was broken up, Anneliese Groscurth and her husband were arrested on September 5, 1943. She was released from remand custody after several weeks and returned to her children, since no evidence was found of her involvement in the resistance group. Georg Groscurth was sentenced to death by the “People’s Court” on December 16, 1943. Anneliese Groscurth could not prevent her husband’s beheading on May 8, 1944.
In 2005 Anneliese and Georg Groscurth were honored posthumously as Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli Holocaust memorial center Yad Vashem.
Anneliese (right) and her sister Jutta Plumpe, 1929. Source: Privatbesitz/Private
Anneliese and Georg Groscurth at their wedding, 1939. Source: Privatbesitz/Private
Anneliese Groscurth with her sons Jan (front) and Peter, around 1948. Source: Privatbesitz/Private
Dr. Anneliese Groscurth on the cover of the magazine “Unser Rundfunk,” Berlin, September 1955. Source: Privatbesitz/Private
