In 1943, hundreds of German women successfully protested the Gestapo to save their husbands
In the heart of Nazi Berlin, hundreds of courageous women risked their lives in a rare public protest that forced the Gestapo to release nearly two thousand Jewish prisoners.
In 1943, the Gestapo arrested approximately 1,800 Jewish men who were married to non-Jewish German women, holding them at a building on Rosenstrasse. In an incredible act of defiance, their wives gathered outside the detention center, chanting 'Give us our husbands back' for several days.
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