About Luise Hartnack
Lived 1872 – 1942 (aged 69–70). Luise Hartnack was a resistance fighter.
Luise Hartnack (1872–1942) was a German graphologist who was murdered at Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was arrested in 1942 for hiding a Jewish friend from the German secret police, Gestapo.
Biography She was born Luise Bürkle on 1 January 1872 in Marbach am Neckar and married to the carpenter Ferdinand Hartnack.
On 2 August 1942, at the age of 70, she was arrested by the Gestapo at her home in Frankfurt am Main for providing food and a hiding place for a good Jewish friend. On 1 October 1942, she was interned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was said to have died "of heart failure" on 14 December 1942.
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Who was Luise Hartnack?
German Holocaust victim (1872–1942)
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Luise Hartnack was born in 1872.
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Luise Hartnack died on 14 December 1942 in Ravensbrück concentration camp.
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Luise Hartnack was a resistance fighter.
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