Emilie Amalie Charlotte "Emmi" Bonhoeffer (née Delbrück; 13 May 1905, Berlin – 12 March 1991, Düsseldorf) was the wife of anti-Hitler activist Klaus Bonhoeffer and sister-in-law of theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer. She married Bonhoeffer on 3 September 1930.[1]
Klaus was chief counsel of the Lufthansa Airline Company and was the leading civilian member of the military resistance to the Hitler regime. While occupied with raising their children, Emmi supported her husband's decision to oppose Nazism, assisting him on countless occasions both morally and practically. Her husband was arrested in October 1944 in connection with the plot to kill Hitler. He was sentenced to death in February 1945, and killed by the SS as the war was ending on 23 April 1945.[1]
Emmi barely escaped her own death when her house was destroyed in the last days of the war. She moved with her children to Schleswig-Holstein to start a new life in June 1945. She was active in projects aiding war refugees, as well as anti-Nazi educational work and various humanitarian efforts.[1]
Emmi Bonhoeffer was also the author of Auschwitz Trials: Letters from an eyewitness.[2]
She was the sister of biophysicist Max Delbrück.[3][4]
References
edit- ^ a b c Dorothee von Meding (1997). Courageous Hearts: Women and the Anti-Hitler Plot of 1944. Berghahn Books. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-1-57181-853-9.
- ^ Emmi Bonhoeffer (1967). Auschwitz trials; letters from an eyewitness. John Knox Press. OCLC 721219723.
- ^ ""Von guten Mächten…"". Max Delbrück Center (in German). 24 October 2024. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- ^ "Emmi Bonhoeffer". Munzinger Biographie (in German). Retrieved 11 November 2024.
Further reading
edit- Bonhoeffer, Emmi (2004). Emmi Bonhoeffer (in German). Berlin: Lukas Verlag. ISBN 978-3-936872-31-6.
- Goldlücke, Regina (15 November 2011). "Vaters Brief war ihre Bürde". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- Thadden, Elisabeth von (1 February 2006). "Bonhoeffers Welt". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- "Emmi Bonhoeffer". Stiftung 20. Juli 1944 (in German). 10 April 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
External links
edit- "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". Collections Search. 8 June 1984. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
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