Lisa Holländer

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Memorial plaque for Lisa Holländer at the Sächsische Strasse 26 building in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Lisa Holländer (* December 24, 1890 - April 22, 1986 ) was a German Righteous Among the Nations .

Life

Lisa Holländer was married to Paul Holländer, a Jewish export merchant, and they lived in Berlin . Paul Holländer was arrested under a pretext during the National Socialist era and taken to a concentration camp. For several months Lisa Holländer tried to get him out of the concentration camp, but in vain. After his murder, his blood-stained clothing was sent to her; she also received an invoice for the funeral expenses. She was told he had died of heart failure.

The friends of the Holländer couple included Walter Rieck (1885–1974) and his wife Jenny (1899–1975). Through Walter Rieck, the Holländers met Ella Deutschkron and her daughter Inge in 1935 . From 1943 they lived illegally in Berlin as Jews. Lisa Holländer took in her mother and daughter at Rosenhof, a building complex on Sächsische Strasse in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . They lived there for several months until the apartment was destroyed in a bomb attack in late January 1944. Ella and Inge Deutschkron found shelter with other helpers. They kept in touch with Lisa Holländer, who helped other Jews by providing them with food, even after the end of World War II .

In 1971 Lisa Holländer was named Righteous Among the Nations. She died in 1986. In November 2005, a memorial plaque for Lisa Holländer was unveiled on the Sächsische Strasse 26 building.

literature

Dutchman, Lisa . In: Daniel Fraenkel, Jackob Borut (Ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations. Germans and Austrians . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005, p. 156, ISBN 3-89244-900-7 .

Web links

Commons : Lisa Holländer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem Honored (PDF; 271 kB) on the side of Yad Vashem (English)
  2. ^ Schmitz at the unveiling of the plaque for Lisa Holländer , press release by the Senate Chancellor
personal data
SURNAME Dutchman, Lisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Righteous Among the Nations
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1890
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1986