Margarete Kaufmann
Margarete Kaufmann (born June 18, 1908 in Saint Petersburg , † December 21, 1942 ? In Auschwitz ?) Was a German resistance fighter against the Nazi regime . Kaufmann had come to Berlin from St. Petersburg in 1919. Since 1924 she worked there in the social democratic Jewish organization Poalei Tzion . In 1932 she joined the Communist Party of Germany . She led the agitation in the sub-district of Berlin-Zentrum. She was arrested by the Gestapo in 1936 for illegal activity and sentenced to several years in prison in 1938. In 1942 it was handed over to the SS . She has been missing since then.
The committee of anti-fascist resistance fighters of the GDR has dedicated a memorial plaque to the stenographer Margarete Kaufmann on her home at Linienstraße 154a in Berlin-Mitte . The inscription says that she was "murdered by the fascists". In addition, Kaufmanns is commemorated on the large memorial plaque in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery .
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin district lexicon center
- To the large memorial plaque of the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery
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| SURNAME | Merchant, Margarete |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighter against the Nazi regime |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | after December 21, 1942 |