Gertrud Seele

Gertrud Seele was a German nurse and social worker who was put to death by the Nazi state for helping Jewish people. Born on 22 September 1917, she was outraged by the persecution of Jews in Germany and took Jewish people into hiding in her own home, and she also arranged safe houses for those who were trying to escape. In 1944 she was denounced to the Gestapo and arrested, and she was charged with aiding the enemy and undermining military morale. Her request to see her daughter before her execution was refused, and she was executed by guillotine on 12 January 1945 at the age of twenty seven. The source article is short, so this entry records only what it states about her.