Ruth Andreas-Friedrich

[1] She was born Ruth Andreas in Berlin and was a member of the Wandervogel movement as a girl.

[2] With her daughter and her companion Leo Borchard, she helped Jews who were threatened with deportation by the Nazis by providing them with accommodation, forged identity papers and food ration stamps.

The group also helped others to escape Germany and distributed flyers advocating resistance to Hitler.

[3][1] Borchard was shot dead in August 1945 by an American soldier after his driver failed to stop at a military checkpoint in Berlin.

There, she married Walter Seitz, who was also involved in her resistance network during the war.