Gitta Bauer

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Gitta Bauer (* 1919 in Berlin ; † 1990 ) saved her friend Ilse Baumgart from the persecution of the National Socialists and received the award “ Righteous Among the Nations ”.

Gitta Bauer and her three sisters were raised very liberally in their Catholic-Protestant parental home. The family's circle of friends also included the Jewish Baumgart family, with whose daughter Ilse she was friends.

At first the National Socialists and their youth associations made an impression on Gitta Bauer and during the Olympic Games of 1936 she too was seized with such enthusiasm that she later freely admitted: "In 1936 I almost became a Nazi". But at the age of 17 she recognized the danger of war that the Nazis posed and took a critical stance on the National Socialists. Since she and six other like-minded youth had produced a newspaper calling for peace and mailed it to friends at the front, she was sentenced to prison.

Her friend Baumgart, according to the citizens of Nuremberg laws as so-called " half-Jew lived" with a fake passport as "Aryan" in Berlin and worked as a telephone operator, fell on July 21, 1944 in big trouble. Ilse Baumgart had dozed off at her desk and woke up when a superior woke her and told her that there had been an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler (see July 20, 1944 ). Ilse Baumgart asked: “Is the pig dead? Then the war will finally be over. ”This statement was immediately reported to an officer on duty, who gave Ilse 15 minutes to avoid being arrested. Gitta Bauer hid her friend in her apartment for nine months without hesitation.

literature

  • Beate Kosmala, Revital Ludewig-Kedmi: Forbidden help. German rescuers during the Holocaust. Auer, Donauwörth 2003, ISBN 3-403-04085-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Gitta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German winner of the “Righteous Among the Nations” award for saving a Jew in 1944, journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1990