Elfriede Scholz

Elfriede Remark, younger sister of writer Erich Maria Remarque, was born on 25 March 1903 in Osnabrück.

The court indicted her on October 26, 1943, on charges of "continuing and publicly undermining the military strength of the German people and aiding and abetting the enemy".

Erich Maria Remarque, who had resided in the United States during the Nazi reign, only learned about the execution of his sister in 1946.

He hired a lawyer, Robert Kempner, to find and charge those guilty of his sister's death, but the case was dismissed by the Berlin Court of Appeal in 1970, with Remarque dying shortly afterwards.

A memorial plaque dedicated to Elfriede Scholz on the house in Berlin on the Suarezstraße, 31, where she lived for some time, was created in 2013.