Helene Jacobs

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Helene Jacobs (born February 25, 1906 in Schneidemühl , †  August 13, 1993 in Berlin ) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism .

Life

tomb
Memorial plaque on the house at Bonner Strasse 2 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Jacobs was secretary of a Jewish patent attorney in the Third Reich and a member of the Confessing Church since 1934 . She joined a group led by the lawyer Franz Herbert Kaufmann , which had been helping since 1940 that persecuted Jews could go into hiding and leave the country. Jacobs hid from Christian-social motivation some people in their homes until they denounced in 1943 and then to the penitentiary was sentenced. In the Federal Republic of Germany Jacobs worked as a civil servant in the compensation office in West Berlin and was transferred there in 1963 because she had done too much for the applicants.

Jacobs had been a member of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin since it was founded in 1949 . She was honored as Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem Memorial . She died in 1993 and was buried in the Dahlem forest cemetery. Her grave has been dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honorary grave since 2004 .

Quote

“ I had nothing to do with illegality. My world broke down, I wanted to defend it. On January 30, 1933, when Hitler became Chancellor, I lost my fatherland. The anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws (1935), which arbitrarily excluded part of the population from the community, got under my skin in particular . I wanted to help these persecuted people. «

Plaque

The inscription on the memorial plaque in Bonner Straße 2 in the Wilmersdorf artists' colony :

Lived in this house from 1935 until her death
the resistance fighter against National Socialism
Helene Jacobs
02/25/1906–8/13/1993
She hid Jews and people in hiding in her apartment
helped them escape. She was from the Nazi judiciary
Sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
Berlin, April 1997

literature

  • Beate Kosmala: Civil courage in an extreme situation: Rescuers of Jews in the “Third Reich” (1941–1945). In: Gerd Meyer , Ulrich Dovermann, Siegfried Frech, Günther Gugel (eds.): Learning civil courage: Analyzes - Models - Working aids. Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2004, pp. 106–115, here: p. 110. ISBN 3-89331-537-3 .
  • Katrin Rudolph: Help jumping into nowhere: Franz Kaufmann and the rescue of Jews and “non-Aryan” Christians . Berlin: Metropol 2005. ISBN 3-936411-77-8
  • Ulrich Werner Grimm : The Berlin Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation. History (s) in the mirror of their sources . In: Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin eV (Ed.): In conversation. 50 years of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin eV - A Festschrift, conception / editing: Ulrich Werner Grimm, Berlin 1999.
  • Ursula Henseler:  Helene Jacobs. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 1105-1108.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Commons : Helene Jacobs  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Pross: reparation: the guerrilla war against the victims. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-610-08502-9 , p. 63.
  2. ↑ The history of Brunnenstrasse
  3. ↑ Online resource (PDF; 360 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Jacobs, Helene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German resistance fighter against National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneidemühl
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1993
Place of death Berlin