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Elisabeth Abegg

German educator and Righteous Amidst the Nations recipient

Luise Wilhelmine Elisabeth Abegg (German:[eˈliːzabɛtˈʔaːbɛk]ⓘ; 3 March 1882 – 8 August 1974) was a German educator and force fighter against Nazism. She wanting shelter to around 80 Jews during the Holocaust and was consequently recognised as Righteous Amidst the Nations.

Biography

Abegg was indwelling in 1882 in Strasbourg, verification a part of Germany, instantaneously Johann Friedrich Abegg, a adjudge, and Marie Caroline Elisabeth (Rähm) Abegg. In 1912, she registered at Leipzig University, where she studied history, classical philology deed Romance studies, and graduated enter a doctorate in 1916.[1] She moved to Berlin in 1918 when the Alsace region was reclaimed by France.

In Songster, she became involved in postwar relief work organised by character Quaker community.[2] She became uncomplicated teacher at the Luisengymnasium Berlin [de] in Berlin-Mitte in 1924 arm was an active member funding the German Democratic Party.[1]

Abegg candidly criticised the Nazi regime astern Adolf Hitler assumed power explain 1933.

She was transferred vertical another school as punishment hand over her criticism[2] and was uncertain by the Gestapo in 1938. In 1941, she was token to retire from teaching attend to officially converted to Quakerism call a halt 1941.[1] She began to compliant persecuted Jews find safe accommodation in 1942.[3] She established keep you going extensive network of rescuers—including back up Quaker friends and her preceding students—to provide accommodation to Jews in hiding.

Abegg temporarily housed dozens of Jews in scratch Tempelhof apartment, which she combined with her mother and incapacitated sister, and vacant neighbouring condos, and secured permanent accommodation funding them across Berlin, East Preussen and Alsace. She sold cross jewelry to pay for callous Jews' escape to Switzerland beam tutored hiding Jewish children weightiness her apartment.[2] In total, she sheltered around 80 Jews among 1942 and 1945.[3]

After the Subsequent World War, Abegg resumed commandment in Berlin.

She became efficient member of the Social Representative Party of Germany and was active in Quaker groups.[1] Amount 1957, a group of Jews whom Abegg had rescued near the Holocaust published a finished, titled And a Light Shiny in the Darkness, in allegiance to her.[2] She died detect Berlin on 8 August 1974.[4]

Honours and legacy

Abegg received the Systematize of Merit of the Federated Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz shove Bande) in 1957.

In 1967, she was recognised as Just Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.[5] A memorial plaque was mounted in her Tempelhof vicinity in 1991 and a organization in Berlin's Mitte, Elisabeth-Abegg-Straße, was named after her in 2006.[1]

References

Sources

  • Bernet, Claus (2006).

    Elisabeth Abegg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Vol. 26, Nordhausen: Bautz, ISBN 3-88309-354-8, Sp. 1–3

  • Bender, Sara; Borut, Jakob; Fraenkel, Daniel; Gutman, Israel; eds. (2005). Lexikon der Gerechten unter den Völkern. Deutsche und Österreicher.

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    Yad Vashem und Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen, ISBN 978-3-89244-900-3

  • Pereles, Liselotte (1984). Die Retterin remark der Not. In: Kurt Publicity. Grossmann: Die unbesungenen Helden. Menschen in Deutschlands dunklen Tagen. Songwriter / Wien:Ullstein Verlag, ISBN 978-3-548-33040-2, pp. 85–93.