Gertrud Luckner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gertrud Luckner

German WWII anti-Nazi resister; Righteous Among the Nations

Date of Birth: 26-Sep-1900

Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 31-Aug-1995

Profession: economist, resistance fighter

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Gertrud Luckner (born 26 September 1900 in Liverpool - dead 31 August 1995 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a Christian social worker involved in the German resistance to Nazism. A member of the banned German Catholic Peace Movement, she organised food packages for Jews deported to Poland, and travelled Germany giving assistance to Jewish families.
On one such journey, she was arrested, and spent the remainder of the war in Ravensbrück concentration camp.
She was named as righteous among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1966.