Examines the activities of the Baum resistance group and relates the fate of some of its members, based on archival material and interviews with friends and relatives. The communist-oriented group, led by Herbert Baum, was formed mainly by young Jews who, from 1940, were forced to work at the Siemens firm in Berlin. Gradually the activities of the group turned into resistance against the Nazis. In ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Schlosser, Kunstschmied Mitglied der Deutsch-jüdischen Jugendgemeinschaft (1928); Mitglied des Ringbundes Deutsch-Jüdischer Jugend (1933), Mitglied der KPD (1939) Mitglied der Widerstandsgruppe um Herbert Baum (ab 1933) Emigration nach Schweden (1939) Rückkehr nach Deutschland, Mitglied der SED (1946) Abt.-Leiter Wirtschaftspolitik in der Landesleitung der SED (1946-1950) ...

The Jewish couple, Betty (born 1896, née Rosenberg) and Hirsch Jakobsohn (born in Pomerania in 1986), a merchant, lived in Berlin. They emigrated with their three children, Guenther (born 1915), Ursel (born 1919) and Werner (born 1923) to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1937 to escape persecution in Nazi Germany. Guenther and Ursel were trained dressmakers. Ursel married Hans-Gunther Kahn in 1941. She ...

"Circles of Resistance: Jewish, Leftist, and Youth Dissidence in Nazi Germany analyzes resistance networks of young German Jews and other young dissidents during the Nazi dictatorship. Young German-Jewish radicals created an intellectually and politically vibrant subculture in Berlin, the geographical focus of this study. The youths analyzed here were reacting not only to Nazi oppression: they were ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Schlosser, Kunstschmied Mitglied der Deutsch-jüdischen Jugendgemeinschaft (1928); Mitglied des Ringbundes Deutsch-Jüdischer Jugend (1933), Mitglied der KPD (1939) Mitglied der Widerstandsgruppe um Herbert Baum (ab 1933) Emigration nach Schweden (1939) Rückkehr nach Deutschland, Mitglied der SED (1946) Abt.-Leiter Wirtschaftspolitik in der Landesleitung der SED (1946-1950) ...