Teacher and activist in the anti-Hitler movement. Born in Mohrungen, East Prussia now Morag, Poland, she taught in a Protestant boarding school at Wieblingen Castle near Heidelberg which she founded in 1927. Forced to resign in 1941 by new state regulations, she started working for the Red Cross. She was reported to the Gestapo for things she said during a discussion on the regime at her home on September 10, 1943. She was arrested, charged with defeatism and attempted treason and sentenced to death mprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp, and sentenced to death by the People’s Court on July 1, 1944.
Her time in the concentration camp and the death sentence did not affect the strength of her convictions. During her imprisonment she wrote: "We wanted to provide social aid at the moment when that aid was needed. We wanted to be good Samaritans." Elisabeth von Thadden was murdered in Berlin-Plötzensee on September 8, 1944.
Her last words were: "Put an end, Lord, to all our sufferings".
Her time in the concentration camp and the death sentence did not affect the strength of her convictions. During her imprisonment she wrote: "We wanted to provide social aid at the moment when that aid was needed. We wanted to be good Samaritans." Elisabeth von Thadden was murdered in Berlin-Plötzensee on September 8, 1944.
Her last words were: "Put an end, Lord, to all our sufferings".
Teacher and activist in the anti-Hitler movement. Born in Mohrungen, East Prussia now Morag, Poland, she taught in a Protestant boarding school at Wieblingen Castle near Heidelberg which she founded in 1927. Forced to resign in 1941 by new state regulations, she started working for the Red Cross. She was reported to the Gestapo for things she said during a discussion on the regime at her home on September 10, 1943. She was arrested, charged with defeatism and attempted treason and sentenced to death mprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp, and sentenced to death by the People’s Court on July 1, 1944.
Her time in the concentration camp and the death sentence did not affect the strength of her convictions. During her imprisonment she wrote: "We wanted to provide social aid at the moment when that aid was needed. We wanted to be good Samaritans." Elisabeth von Thadden was murdered in Berlin-Plötzensee on September 8, 1944.
Her last words were: "Put an end, Lord, to all our sufferings".
Her time in the concentration camp and the death sentence did not affect the strength of her convictions. During her imprisonment she wrote: "We wanted to provide social aid at the moment when that aid was needed. We wanted to be good Samaritans." Elisabeth von Thadden was murdered in Berlin-Plötzensee on September 8, 1944.
Her last words were: "Put an end, Lord, to all our sufferings".
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