Emmi Handke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Emmi Handke

German Communist and anti-Nazi activist

Date of Birth: 30-Sep-1902

Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 17-Jan-1994

Profession: politician, resistance fighter

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Emmi Handke (born Emmi Christoph 30 September 1902 - 17 January 1994) was a German Communist party activist.She spent most of the twelve Nazi years in state detention, arrested in 1934 after her "political work" became illegal.
Following the war she worked on the Committee of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp survivors ("Komitee der Ravensbrücker"), later serving for many years as the General Secretary of the International Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Committee.She worked with the powerful Party Central Committee of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) though she was never herself a member of it.
She was, however, a member of the East German national parliament ("Volkskammer") between 1958 and 1986.