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MISSION STATEMENT

Our Mission

Mission Statement

 

The mission of the Rosenstrasse Foundation is to commemorate, encourage, and educate about civil courage-- concrete acts in opposition to injustice and human rights violations that defend the values of a pluralistic society. 

 

Our Name and initial focus

 

The Foundation takes its name from the Rosenstrasse Protest in central Berlin in early 1943, in which non-Jewish women married to Jewish men defied Hitler’s regime to protest the capture of their husbands, leading to the men’s release. The foundation is dedicated to the development of knowledge about this and other acts of women-led defiance in addition to acts of civil courage more generally.

Charlotte Israel, age 79, in 1989 with her then-husband Mr. Freudenthal, who is holding a blanket-size piece of cloth produced by a flag manufacturer, covered with the yellow badges German Jews were required to wear as of age 6.

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