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A second-year biological science student with hopes to go to medical school.

ROSENSTRASSE PROTEST: FINDING THE ARYAN WIVES WHO FOUGHT FOR THEIR JEWISH HUSBANDS

Abstract

During Nazi Germany, it was common for Jewish men to marry Aryan women, this is called intermarriage and saved the men from being taken by the government and sent to concentration camps. On February 27, 1943 the Nazis became impatient and kidnapped 1,700-1,800 Jewish men and placed them in the Jewish Community Center. When their wives realized where they were, they began a protest, now called the Rosenstrasse protest, until their husbands were finally released on March 6, 1943. There were approximately 6,000 women who protested. Information about Nazi Germany is well known to the public, however, information about the Rosesntrasse protest is not. With this, our research primarily focuses on finding the women protestors’ and spreading awareness about the injustices their families faced.

Keywords: Genealogy, Rosenstrasse, civil courage