Who was Eva Mamlok? Berlin square renamed after Jewish anti-fascist resistance fighter

In the history of German resistance to Nazism , some names have become symbols: Sophie Scholl , Claus von Stauffenberg , Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Georg Elser . Among them is Eva Mamlok, a young Jewish woman from Berlin whose acts of defiance began in her teenage years and continued until her murder in a Nazi concentration camp. Now more people will get to know her story as Berlin renames Blücherplatz, a square in the district of Kreuzberg, Eva-Mamlok-Platz on October 16. "Eva Mamlok was a very remarkable person. As a young Jewish woman from Berlin, her spirit of resistance was particularly striking," says cultural researcher Alexandra Weltz-Rombach, who has worked extensively with the historians' network "Gruppe Eva Mamlok.