Berta Schäfer (resistance fighter)

Berta Shepherd , born Langer (* 18th July 1890 in Lodz ; † 11. February 1945 in Ravensbruck ) was a German resistance fighter for the National Socialist period in Gera .

biography

Berta Schäfer moved to Gera with her parents in 1905. Here she worked in various industrial companies. Schäfer was politically active and belonged to the Jungspartakusbund , the Bund der Freunde der Sovietunion and the Rote Hilfe . She was active in the KPD with her future husband . She had two daughters with him. During the Nazi era, the family was revoked of citizenship in 1934 due to a Jewish line established under the Nuremberg Laws . Her husband also lost his job as a nurse at the city hospital in the course of the purges. During the entire Nazi era, he resisted the constant pressure to divorce his Jewish wife. Constant house searches, labor camps, and forced labor were the lesser evils her family had to endure. One of her daughters, who had a child from an “ Aryan ”, was taken to a concentration camp for this crime - racial disgrace - and returned in 1945 sick. Berta Schäfer herself was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in September 1944 , where she died on February 11, 1945.

Appreciation

Berta-Schäfer-Strasse has existed in the Lusan development area in Gera since May 3, 1978. On July 10, 2010, the locomotive 201 of the Gera tram was christened on the day of the open house.

literature

• Werner Simsohn : Jews in Gera, Part II (p. 154 f.)

Web links

• Berta Schäfer at Gera Chronik