Honoring Traute Lafrenz (1919-2023): A Reminder to Stand Up Against Oppression

Traute Lafrenz, 1942 (photo: public domain)

Traute Lafrenz would most likely be sentenced to death when the Gestapo arrested her for the second time. But three days before her trial was scheduled to begin in April 1945, the Allies liberated the prison where she was being held. And after that narrow escape from death at a young age, she continued her long…