Senator of the Interior Lummer yesterday presented the Federal Service Cross, awarded by the Federal President, to Elisabeth Wust (68), of Lichterfelde. In the years from 1942 to 1945 Elisabeth Wust hid and cared for four Jewish women in her apartment in Schmargendorf. One of the women was hunted down by the Gestapo and died at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Three of the women survived the Nazi regime. This is the twenty-first Federal Service Cross awarded in Berlin to “unsung heroes,” those persons who offered aid to victims of Nazi persecution.
DER TAGESSPIEGEL, SEPTEMBER 22, 1981