Language:
French
Year of publication:
1997
Titel der Quelle:
Cahiers Bernard Lazare
Angaben zur Quelle:
168 (1997) 22-26
Keywords:
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Jews
;
Holocaust survivors
;
World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
;
Jewish women in the Holocaust
;
Intermarriage
Abstract:
Relates the story of 2,000 Christian women in Berlin who protested against the roundup of their Jewish husbands who were taken from their places of work in February 1943 in order to be sent to Auschwitz. The Jews were interned in the Jewish community building in Berlin's Rosenstrasse. The resistance of the German women, who stood for a few days outside the building demanding the liberation of their husbands, caused Goebbels to release them. However, 25 of the 2,000 men were deported to Auschwitz. Their wives continued to protest and at last they too were released and transferred to a labor camp near Berlin. They had to sign a declaration that they would never tell what they saw in Auschwitz. In 1996, a memorial space for sculptures was established in the place of detention on the Rosenstrasse.
Note:
On the successful protest of 2000 German women against the arrest of their Jewish husbands in Berlin, 1943.
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Appeared previously in English in "The European Magazine".
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