Eva Cassirer

Eva Cassirer (Berlin, 28 January 1920 – Calvià [Majorca, Spain], 19 September 2009) was a German philosopher, astronomer and art collector.

[1] As early as 1922/23, the sculptor Georg Kolbe created a bronze head of Eva Cassirer on behalf of her father.

Elisabeth Jacoby and her brother Hans, as forced labourers of the Berlin Siemens & Halske factory, were not deported together with their parents.

However, after the brother and sister were also supposed to report for deportation in January 1943 in Große Hamburger Straße [de], the main street of the Jewish quarter, they initially hid with their former nanny.

[7][8] Part of the villa was rented out to Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe, an employee in the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, who pretended not to notice the illegally housed persons.

[15] Because of their help for those illegally harboured in the Third Reich, Eva Cassirer and her mother were posthumously recognised as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem on 11 January 2011.