Schroeder Hanning

Schröder, Hanning Hanning Schröder was born on July 4, 1896 in Rostock. He and his wife, Cornelia Schröder, were an intermarried German-Jewish couple. They gave shelter in their Berlin home to a Jewish man and his wife whom they had never met before the war. Around the Easter holiday in 1944, the Jewish couple, Werner and Ilse Rewald, had run out of all possible hiding places. They were referred to the Schröders by an acquaintance, herself the Jewish wife of an Aryan. Despite the fact that the Schröders had never met the Rewalds before and that their own situation was somewhat precarious, they agreed to take them in and encouraged them to stay until the end of the war. They presented them to their neighbors as Germans who had become homeless in the wake of an air raid. Hanning Schröder was a German musician of note. His string quartet, “In Memoriam Lied der Moorsoldaten,” which commemorated the Holocaust, won wide recognition after the war. He died in Berlin in 1987. On April 16, 1978, Yad Vashem recognized Hanning Schröder as Righteous Among the Nations.