Richter Emma

Richter, Emma Emma Richter was born in Cottbus, in 1891. After the last large roundup of Jews in Berlin on February 27, 1943 – the so-called “Fabrikaktion” – she sheltered her old Jewish friend, Meta Sawady, in her small Berlin apartment. The two had known each other since 1924, when they worked together as shop assistants in a cigarette shop. After the beginning of the intensified air raids in August 1943, Richter moved her friend to a summer house on Brandenburgische Strasse. She would travel daily from her home to Sawady’s hiding place – an hour and a half ride by tram – until the end of the war, to provide her friend with food and other necessities. Richter also generously supported other persecuted Jews, sending them packages to the assembly camp in the Grosse Hamburger Strasse and to Theresienstadt. On October 13, 1964, Yad Vashem recognized Emma Richter as Righteous Among the Nations.