Eva Hermann

Eva Hermann (Nee Lüddecke; May 24, 1900 — July 31, 1997) was a German teacher, writer, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. She and her husband were arrested and imprisoned for harboring a Jewish family by the Nazi police. For their work rescuing Jews, they were awarded by Yad Vashem the Righteous Among the Nations.

Quotes

• I am fully conscious of the fact that my late husband and I did nothing special; we simply tried to remain human in the midst of inhumanity.
  • Mordecai Paldiel (1993). The path of the righteous. Internet Archive. Ktav. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-0-88125-376-4. 

• How can I not hesitate before accepting? Are we sufficiently aware, against the background of the darkest chapter in German history, of how guilty we are for rescuing no more than a tiny droplet out of the endless sea of despair of that period? Righteous can therefore have no other meaning than the attempt, the obligation, to do what is right and to live humanly even during times of inhumanity.
  • Mordecai Paldiel (1993). The path of the righteous. Internet Archive. Ktav. pp. 154–155. ISBN 978-0-88125-376-4. 

• When one's existence which has seemed quite secure suddenly melts away. . . when every security fails and every support gives way—then one stands face to face with the Eternal and confronts Him without protection and with fearful directness. . . When imprisonment has lasted a certain time it ceases to be punishment. One has removed one’s self from ordinary life and slowly begins to find a new standard.
  • Young, Amanda Verdery (2017-03-20). Eva Hermann (in en-US). Women In Peace.