Elvira Eisenschneider

Elvira Eisenschneider (22 April 19246 April 1944) was a German resistance fighter who served in the Red Army. She was born in Fischbach near County Birkenfield and died on 6 April in 1944 in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Early life and family Soon after the Nazi Party came into power, on 7 March 1933 members of the SA were carrying out inspections during which 10 year old Elvira had to watch her mother get beat up for not revealing her father's location.

Life in the Soviet Union The family fled to the Soviet Union where Paul Eisenschneider attended the International Lenin school in Moscow. In 1936 he returned to Germany, was arrested and convicted to a life in prison. He was killed on 19 April 1944 in the Mauthausen concentration camp.

Due to her father being arrested in Germany, and her mother being put under the supervision of doctors, Elvira Eisenschneider would be sent to the International Children's Home in Ivanovo. It was here that she became a member of the youth group Komsomol, and where she was preparing to study at the Institute of Literature in Moscow.

Legacy

Both Elvira and Paul Eisenschneider's names are engraved on the large plaque of the memorial of the socialists in Berlin's Friedrichsfelde central cemetery in the Lichtenberg district. The ship ROS 404 Elvira Eisenschneider was in service from 30 September 1966 to May 1987. It was a feeder trawler of the "Artur Becker" series.