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Women of the Rosenstrasse protest challenged the Nazi regime for their detained Jewish husbands’ freedom – and won

  • Written by Danielle Wirsansky, Ph.D. Candidate in Modern European History, Florida State University
Women of the Rosenstrasse protest challenged the Nazi regime for their detained Jewish husbands’ freedom – and wonA sculpture by Ingeborg Hunzinger commemorates the Rosenstrasse protest in Berlin.NikiSublime/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

On the cold evening of Feb. 27, 1943, Charlotte Israel gathered with a small crowd of women on the Rosenstrasse, a narrow street in central Berlin. They were not Jewish, but their husbands were, and the men had just been...

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