Status: 09.03.2022 2:58 p.m
She has repeatedly told her dramatic story to warn young people in particular about anti-Semitism. Holocaust survivor Inge Deutschkron has died. She was 99 years old.
Holocaust survivor Inge Deutschkron has died at the age of 99. This was confirmed by the Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe, citing their personal environment.
The German-Israeli journalist and author survived the Nazi era as a Jewish girl underground. She became known with her autobiography “I wore the yellow star” about her dramatic story of survival as a Jewess in Berlin. She later became particularly involved in communicating her experiences to students.
“With Inge Deutschkron we have lost an important contemporary Jewish witness to the National Socialist terror in our city,” said Dennis Buchner, President of the Berlin House of Representatives. The Berlin honorary citizen has always found the strength to “tell her story and shake us up with it,” said the SPD politician.
Since 2018 honorary citizen of Berlin
Deutschkron was born in Finsterwalde in Brandenburg in 1922 and grew up in Berlin. During the Nazi era, the Jewess survived underground in Germany, partly because non-Jewish friends hid her for two years.
After the Second World War, Deutschkron lived and worked alternately in Israel and Germany. She later lived in Berlin again. Among other things, she visited numerous schools here and enabled encounters between Holocaust survivors and schoolchildren. The state of Berlin awarded Deutschkron the Order of Merit and the Louise Schröder Medal for her commitment. In 2018 she was also awarded honorary citizenship.