Stella Goldschlag

Stella Goldschlag (1922 - 1994) was Jewish allemande who was forced by the Nazis to collaborate in the research of the Jews hidden in Berlin in order to save her life and that of her family. This activity was worth to him to be called the “Submarine”.

Stella Goldschlag lived in Berlin. After the takeover by the Nazi S and the creation of the Third Reich, she lived initially like all the other Jews, undergoing the policy anti-semite Nazi regime. His/her parents vainly tried to find a possibility of emigrating. After the elementary school, it followed a formation like dessinatrice of mode in a school of the fine arts.

Little before the beginning war in 1939 it married the Jewish musician Manfred Kübler. They worked together with the Jewish statute of hard-working forced in an arms factory in Berlin. Three years later, it entered clandestinity, but its appearance “Aryen” (fair with the blue eyes) enabled him to pass between the drops in 1942, at the time of large the Déportation S of Berliner Jews towards the Death camps; it was never taken for Jewish and had consequently never to present its identity papers.

It was however stopped in spring 1943. In order to protect her parents from the deportation, she stated herself lends has to collaborate with the Nazis. Its action consisted in passing Berlin to the fine comb, in the search of clandestine Jews, auprès of which it was made pass for resistant lends to help, which enabled him to obtain information on other masks the clandestine ones. She transmitted then this information to Gestapo.

In spite of this important collaboration, it could not save her parents of death. Her husband and his in-laws were also off-set into 1943 towards the death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau. It however continued its role of denouncer: Stella Goldschlag continued without slackening to work for the Nazis; known under the pseudonym of Greiferin and feared in the Jewish mediums of Berlin, it continued has to denounce the clandestine Jews, and this until March 1945, dates from the last transport of deportees of Berlin towards the Concentration camp of Theresienstadt.

At the end of the war, it set out again in clandestinity, but however was stopped in October 1945 by the Soviet, and condemned to ten years of detention in the Soviet camps. After the purging of its sorrow it regained West Berlin.

She will be condemned there second once to ten years of detention, pains that she did not purge however thanks to her years of detention already carried out.

The documents presented at the time of the lawsuits of post-war period indicate that the denunciations of Stella Goldschlag would have made between 600 and: 3000 victims among the Jews.

She finally committed suicide in 1994, at the 72 years age.

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