Traute Lafrenz
Trust Lafrenz ( May 3, 1919 in Hamburg), married Page, is a living in South Carolina doctor. She was involved in the resistance against the Nazis in the activities of the Hamburg and Munich White Rose. You played a central role as a link to the separate operating groups.
Life
Trust Lafrenz joined with 14 years of the Hamburg convent school to the Lichtwark. She belonged to the class of teacher Erna steel, the 1933 was still teaching even after the seizure of power by the National Socialists in the sense of liberal arts tradition and the reform school until she was demoted Easter 1935. Their lessons designated Traute Lafrenz retrospect as "a gift for life ." As the co-education was abolished at the Lichtwark 1937 Traute Lafrenz returned to the convent school where she completed Easter 1938, the school leaving examination. After the Reich Labour Service (RAD ) they began together me her classmate Margaretha Rothe, in the summer semester 1939, the study of medicine at the University of Hamburg. After the end of the semester it was used as part of the Reich Labor Service for helping with the harvest in eastern Pomerania. There she met Alexander Schmorell, whom she met again in the summer semester 1939 at the University of Hamburg, where he was enrolled for this semester for medicine.
In May 1941 Traute Lafrenz joined the University of Munich, where she learned to know Hans Scholl and Christoph Probst. She participated in many conversations and discussions of the White Rose, even with Kurt Huber, in part. In the late fall of 1942 Traute Lafrenz brought the third leaflet of the White Rose to Hamburg and gave it to her former schoolmates Heinz Kucharski, it more widespread. As at February 18, 1943 Hans and Sophie Scholl in the University of Munich, the sixth leaflet of the White Rose were arrested and interpreted it, even got Traute substantially influenced in the investigations of the Gestapo. She was arrested on 15 March 1943 indicted shortly thereafter together with Alexander Schmorell and Kurt Huber of the People's Court and sentenced on 19 April 1943 for " complicity " to one year in prison. Trust Lafrenz had managed to hide in the interrogations by the Gestapo, their actual participation in the activities of the group. After her release from prison on 14 March 1944 she was in the course of the investigation against the "Hamburg branch of the White Rose " Two weeks later, already arrested again and taken to the police prison Fuhlsbiittel in Hamburg. In November 1944, she was transferred to the prison Cottbus, from February 1945, she was transported from there to the women's prison Leipzig- Meusdorf to Bayreuth, where she was liberated on 14 April 1945 by American troops.
In 1947 she emigrated to the United States. At the University of Berkeley (California ) and at Joseph 's Hospital in San Francisco, she completed her medical studies. On March 2, 1949, she married the doctor Vernon Page. From 1972 to 1994 she was director of special education Esperanza School for mentally disabled children in Chicago. After her retirement she and her husband moved to South Carolina. Vernon Page died in 1995, since then Traute Lafrenz Page lives in her former summer home on Yonges Iceland.
Honors
On 26 November 2007, a longer -month exhibition was opened ( with borrowed panels ) for Traute substantially influenced in the Munich memorial site White Rose.
2009, she was awarded by the Jewish community in Hamburg Herbert soft man medal. Next to her was the winner at this time 98 -year-old Elsa Werner. Trust Lafrenz received the award on behalf of all members and supporters of the White Rose.
In the former prison Cottbus was opened on December 10, 2013, a permanent exhibition of the Human Rights Center Cottbus, in which the nine women on the Hamburger White Rose, especially Traute Lafrenz, Margaretha Rothe and Erna steel, are acknowledged in a section.
Publications
- Trust Lafrenz: eyewitness account; in: Inge Scholl, The White Rose (extended edition ), Frankfurt am Main 1993, pp. 131-138.
- Susan Benedict, Arthur Caplan, Traute Lafrenz -Page: Duty and ' euthanasia ': the nurses of Meseritz - Obrawalde; In: Nursing Ethics, Nov. 2007, 14 (6 ) pp. 781-794