Lagi von Ballestrem

[2] She lived in Shanghai with her first husband Wolfgang Mohr (married 1932)[2] where she helped Jewish refugees.

[3]: 133  Together with her mother Hanna, Lagi von Ballestrem planned escape routes for fleeing Jews and participated in secret meetings with other opponents of the Nazi regime.

[1] In 1939 von Ballestrem helped the gynaecologist and intellectual Ferdinand Mainzer and his family to escape to England.

While many other members of the group were executed, Ballestrem and Solf were freed when the Red Army liberated Ravensbrück.

[1] Her story in her own words is found in Eric Boehm [de]'s book We Survived, first published in 1949.