Barthel Schink, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Nazi resister from Germany
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Place of Birth: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Barthel Schink
- Bartholomäus (Barthel) Schink (November 27, 1927 – November 10, 1944) was a member of the Edelweiss Pirates, active in the Ehrenfeld Group (Ehrenfeld is a district of Cologne) in Cologne, which resisted the Nazi regime.
- He was among the 12 members of that group who were publicly hanged in Cologne by the Gestapo on 10 November 1944.
- Although they were not tried, the group was accused of killing five people and planning an attack on the EL-DE Haus, the local Gestapo headquarters.
- The street in the Ehrenfeld suburb of Cologne, next to the Ehrenfeld S-bahn station where Schink was hanged, is renamed after Schink.
- Yad Vashem recognized Barthel Schink as Righteous Among the Nations for risking his life to hide Jews from the Nazi persecution.
- There is a memorial plaque honoring the memory of all those killed from the Edelweiss Pirates and the Ehrenfeld Group.
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