Correspondence with Jacobs, Helene

Identifier

WL3000/9/1/664

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

110396

Dates

27 Sep 1955 - 1 Aug 1963

Level of Description

Collection

Languages

German

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/110396

Extent and Medium

10 letters

Biographical History

Helene Jacobs (1906-1993) was a German Anti-Nazi resistance fighter. The member of the Confessing Church Berlin hid Jews and helped them escape from Germany. In 1943 she was arrested and imprisoned. After the war Jacobs campaigned for the Society for Christian-Jewish cooperation. In 1968 Yad Vashem honoured her as ‘Righteous Among the Nations’.

See Gutman, I. (ed.), The encyclopedia of the righteous among the nations: rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. Europe (Part 1) and other countries, Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, 2007, pp. 110-11.

Scope and Content

Correspondence regarding the sending of published material, and an enquiry by The Wiener Library for a contribution of Jacobs to its eyewitness testimony project.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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Related Units of Description

For information about the eyewitness testimony project and access to the compiled reports see the Eyewitness Testimony Collection.

People

Jacobs, Helene

Subjects

Righteous Among the Nations
Resistance
Personal narratives
Christians

Places

Third Reich [1933-1945]

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