Helene Jacobs

Helene Jacobs ( born February 25, 1906 in Pila, † August 13, 1993 in Berlin) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism.

Life

Jacobs was in the Third Reich secretary of a Jewish patent lawyer and since 1934 a member of the Confessing Church. She joined a group led by the lawyer Franz Herbert Kaufmann, who helped since 1940 that persecuted Jews into hiding and were able to leave the country. Jacobs hid from christian - social motivation some people in their homes until it was denounced in 1943 and subsequently sentenced to prison. In the Federal Republic of Germany Jacobs worked as a civil servant in the Compensation Office in West Berlin, where he was demoted in 1963 because she had used too much for applicants.

Jacobs was in 1949 a member of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Berlin since the founding. She was honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. She died in 1993 and was interred in the Forest Cemetery Dahlem, where she received an honorary grave in 2004.

Quote

"With illegality I had nothing to do. My world was broken, I wanted to defend. I had on 30 January 1933, when Hitler became Chancellor, lost my country. In particular, the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws (1935 ), which excluded part of the population at random from the community, went under my skin. This persecuted people I wanted to help. "

Plaque

The inscription on the plaque in the Bonner Straße 2 in the artists' colony Wilmersdorf: