Update of 3/1/2023: In the meantime, I have learnt that Yad Vashem did not commemorate these women, because it only honors those individuals who helped other and not their e.g. spouses.
What did German women (so called Rassenschänder [race desecrators]) do, who were married to Jewish men during the Nazi dictatorship? Perhaps this exhibition provides some answers.
Curiously, the German government financed Goethe Institute does not mention in their article about these courageous German women whether they were inducted into Yad Vashem as The Righteous Among the Nations. Quite a surprising omission!!!
"... an exhibit to the Rosenstrasse Protest, the largest public demonstration against the deportation of Jews in the Third Reich. The exhibit highlights the courageous women at the center of the protest who fought for their husbands.
At the end of February 1943, the Nazis arrested thousands of Jews in Berlin for deportation to concentration camps. Among those arrested were 1,800 Jewish men who were married to "Aryan" women. These men were held in a building at Rosenstrasse 2-4 in Berlin-Mitte. Their wives and family members protested in front of the building on Rosenstrasse from late February into early March of 1943, demanding the men’s release. The imprisoned men eventually returned home. To this day, the women of Rosenstrasse are inspiring role models for civic engagement."
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