She helped print and distribute leaflets warning of the Nazi's genocidal plans.
group — never numbering more than a few dozen — represented one of the first organized protests calling attention to the Holocaust, that eventually claimed the lives of 6 million Jews in addition to Roma, disabled people and others.
Ms. Lafrenz was twice arrested by the Gestapo, Hitler’s feared secret police. She was within three days of facing a jailhouse trial in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth, and possible execution, when U.S. forces liberated the prison and the city in April 1945. Ms. Lafrenz, a medical student in Munich, saw the mounting evidence of the Nazi campaign against Jews and anyone else deemed outside of Hitler’s “master race” visions.Ms. Lafrenz helped provided the equipment for printing leaflets clandestinely at a Munich bookshop, whose owner was gay and feared the Nazi sweeps that also targeted his community. She also carried leaflets to her native Hamburg in northern Germany, where she secretly left the fliers in libraries or tossed them from buildings.
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