11-05-2021, 08:03 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/n...zi-germany
(Source: Philip Oltermann / Above article)
A Berlin couple who dedicated themselves to spiriting Jewish families and political dissidents out of Nazi Germany via a clandestine network disguised as an English-language tutoring service have been honoured in the German capital for the first time since their story fell into obscurity half a century ago.
A commemorative plaque was installed on Thursday by Berlin authorities at Pariser Strasse 54 in the Wilmersdorf district, outside the former home of Max and Malwine Schindler. Their legacy was rediscovered two years ago through a cache of letters and photographs found in a garden shed in Australia.
When Max – unrelated to the industrialist Oskar Schindler portrayed in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Hollywood drama Schindler’s List – lost his job at Neukölln city council after the Nazi’s banning of the Social Democratic party (SPD) in 1933, he concentrated his mind on setting up an underground network to help those suffering Nazi persecution escape Germany.
I have to admit, I'd never heard of this story before .
Absolutely heroic what the Schindlers did to help Jewish families to flee from persecution - and I'm glad to see them being commemorated!
(Source: Philip Oltermann / Above article)
A Berlin couple who dedicated themselves to spiriting Jewish families and political dissidents out of Nazi Germany via a clandestine network disguised as an English-language tutoring service have been honoured in the German capital for the first time since their story fell into obscurity half a century ago.
A commemorative plaque was installed on Thursday by Berlin authorities at Pariser Strasse 54 in the Wilmersdorf district, outside the former home of Max and Malwine Schindler. Their legacy was rediscovered two years ago through a cache of letters and photographs found in a garden shed in Australia.
When Max – unrelated to the industrialist Oskar Schindler portrayed in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Hollywood drama Schindler’s List – lost his job at Neukölln city council after the Nazi’s banning of the Social Democratic party (SPD) in 1933, he concentrated his mind on setting up an underground network to help those suffering Nazi persecution escape Germany.
I have to admit, I'd never heard of this story before .
Absolutely heroic what the Schindlers did to help Jewish families to flee from persecution - and I'm glad to see them being commemorated!
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