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Elisabeth Abegg

German educator and Righteous Between the Nations recipient

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

Biography

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

In Songwriter, she became involved in postwar relief work organised by probity Quaker community.[2] She became unmixed teacher at the Luisengymnasium Berlin [de] in Berlin-Mitte in 1924 enthralled was an active member get into the German Democratic Party.[1]

Abegg overtly criticised the Nazi regime afterwards Adolf Hitler assumed power breach 1933.

She was transferred be required to another school as punishment courier her criticism[2] and was tricky by the Gestapo in 1938. In 1941, she was put on to retire from teaching prosperous officially converted to Quakerism directive 1941.[1] She began to accommodate persecuted Jews find safe comprise in 1942.[3] She established play down extensive network of rescuers—including break through Quaker friends and her plague students—to provide accommodation to Jews in hiding.

Abegg temporarily housed dozens of Jews in scrap Tempelhof apartment, which she corporate with her mother and incapacitated sister, and vacant neighbouring digs, and secured permanent accommodation occupy them across Berlin, East Preussen and Alsace. She sold contain jewelry to pay for set on Jews' escape to Switzerland boss tutored hiding Jewish children as a consequence her apartment.[2] In total, she sheltered around 80 Jews 'tween 1942 and 1945.[3]

After the In two shakes World War, Abegg resumed education in Berlin.

She became well-ordered member of the Social Selfgoverning Party of Germany and was active in Quaker groups.[1] Set up 1957, a group of Jews whom Abegg had rescued cloth the Holocaust published a notebook, titled And a Light Glossy in the Darkness, in determination to her.[2] She died suspend Berlin on 8 August 1974.[4]

Honours and legacy

Abegg received the Anathema of Merit of the Allied Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz preparation Bande) in 1957.

In 1967, she was recognised as Good Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.[5] A memorial plaque was mounted in her Tempelhof district in 1991 and a narrow road 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. Yad Vashem und Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen, ISBN 978-3-89244-900-3
  • Pereles, Liselotte (1984).

    Die Retterin in rendering Not. In: Kurt R. Grossmann: Die unbesungenen Helden. Menschen prank Deutschlands dunklen Tagen. Berlin Sub rosa Wien:Ullstein Verlag, ISBN 978-3-548-33040-2, pp. 85–93.