Änne Schmitz

Änne Schmitz (* 1906 ), a trained bookbinder, was a member of the association “ Bund - Gemeinschaft für Sozialistisches Leben ” founded by Artur Jacobs and a Jewish helper during the National Socialist era .

Life

Änne Schmitz came from a working class family in Elberfeld. She joined the SPD at the age of 19 and remained associated with this party for life. In 1928 she became a member of the “Bund”, which her fiancé and later husband August Schmitz also joined.

During the Nazi dictatorship , Änne Schmitz and her friends from the “Bund” helped those persecuted. The couple hid politically persecuted people on the run abroad in their apartment. Änne Schmitz moved to Berringhausen near Burscheid with her sister and son Jürgen in 1943 , as their apartment had been destroyed by bombs. The Jewish woman Marianne Strauss-Ellenbogen was hidden underground by the "Bund" and thus her life was saved. Änne Schmitz took them in spring 1944 in her apartment for a few weeks.

Honor

For this act, she and other federal Jewish rescuers were posthumously honored on September 15, 2005 by the Israeli Yad Vashem memorial in the embassy of the State of Israel in Berlin as Righteous Among the Nations . The other honorees were Fritz and Maria Briel, Emilie Busch, Hanni Ganzer, Hedwig Gehrke, Meta Kamp-Steinmann, Karin Morgenstern and Grete Strüter.

literature

Daniel Fraenkel, Jakob Borut (ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations: Germans and Austrians . Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2005; ISBN 3-89244-900-7 ; P. 248 f.

Individual evidence

↑ Mark Roseman : In an unguarded moment. A woman survives underground . Structure, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7466-8121-9 , p. 338-340 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Schmitz, Änne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German rescuer of the Jews during the Second World War
DATE OF BIRTH	1906
DATE OF DEATH	before 2006

[1] Mark Roseman : In an unguarded moment. A woman survives underground . Structure, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7466-8121-9 , p. 338-340 .