Liane Berkowitz

[1] Liane Berkowitz was born in Berlin, the daughter of conductor Victor Vasilyev[1] and the singing teacher Catherine Jewsienko.

[2] Henry arranged for her education at the private Heilsche Abendschule gymnasium where she prepared for her Abitur qualification from 1941.

[3] Together with Otto Gollnow, while her fiancé was severely wounded in the hospital, Berkowitz pasted about 100 adhesive stickers saying on the evening of 17 May 1942 in the busy area between Kurfürstendamm and Uhlandstrasse.

[5] This was intended as a protest against The Soviet Paradise exhibition organised by the Nazi Party Propaganda Office, that took place at the Berlin Lustgarten.

[1] Friedrich Rehmer was still in a Wehrmacht hospital in Britz, where he was recuperating from a serious war injury he had suffered on the Eastern Front.

[1] As the Reichskriegsgericht pronounced the sentence recommendation when checking with Adolf Hitler to dismiss the pregnant Liane Berkowitz from prison, he expressly rejected any reprieve.

[citation needed] The young mother was executed in Plötzensee Prison at 7.45 p.m on 5 August 1943, two days before her 20th birthday.