Gertrud Luckner

Overview

Gertrud Luckner (née Jane Hart) born Liverpool, England September 26, 1900 (d. 1995). German pacifist resister against Hitler; Quaker convert to Catholicism; rescued Jews in Germany until sent to Ravensbrück 1943 for 19 months; honored by Yad Vashem.

Quotations

"I thought: ‘You must always comfort them. The only thing I can do is walk the way together with them.’ The whole thing had been so terrible—the deportations, one city after another—so that it really did not much matter anymore what happened to me." (quote and photo Pax Christi International)