Frieda Szturmann

Frieda Szturmann (* June 12, 1897 ; † 1962 ) hid the Jew Cecilie Rudnik from the Gestapo as a “homeworker” in Staaken near Spandau and was honored in 2013 by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial as “ Righteous Among the Nations ”.

Frieda Szturmann was a long-time patient and confidante of the Egyptian doctor Mohammed Helmy , who came to Germany as a medical student and settled there. When Helmy was looking for someone at very short notice in March 1942 to hide his Jewish patient Cecilie Rudnik, then 67 years old, he turned to Frieda Szturmann. She then risked her life for years, initially hiding Cecilie Rudnik and later her granddaughter Anna Boros for a short time.

"Despite the cramped conditions, despite the risk of being discovered and despite the food shortage, she did not hesitate to take in Cecilie and her granddaughter," wrote the Israeli embassy to award the certificate as "Righteous Among the Nations", which was sent posthumously to her grandson Dieter Szturmann was presented.

literature

Book chapter about the rescue of Cecilie Rudnik: Jani Pietsch, "I owned a garden in Schöneiche near Berlin". The Managed Disappearance of Jewish Neighbors and Their Difficult Return, Frankfurt / New York 2006, pp. 100–107. 

Book chapter about the rescue of Cecilie Rudnik: Ronen Steinke :  The Muslim and the Jewess. The story of a rescue in Berlin , Berlin 2017, pp. 65–78.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial honors two Berliners.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: BZ of January 14, 2015, accessed on May 6, 2017  
2. ↑ Compensation Act Cecilie Rudnik, State Administration and Regulatory Affairs Berlin, Compensation Authority, reg. No. 25535, Bl. C8.
3. ↑ "These women and men are like beacons in the deepest darkness." Embassy of the State of Israel in Berlin January 22, 2015 , accessed on May 6, 2017