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Erich Elkan (1907-1943) was a Jewish lawyer from Berlin, Germany. He helped 180 Jewish children escape Nazi persecution by falsifying documents. Sixty of the children were from one orphanage.[1]
Elkan was murdered in Sobibor extermination camp on July 9, 1943. There is a Stolperstein in his memory in Berlin.
References
edit- ^ Thomas, Gordon; Lewis, Greg (2019). Defying Hitler: the Germans who resisted Nazi rule. New York: Caliber. ISBN 978-0-451-48904-3.