serious war injury he had suffered on the Eastern Front. He was arrested in his hospital ward on 29 November. On 18 January 1943, the Second Senate of the Reichskriegsgericht court-martial convicted Berkowitz and Rehmer together with other friends involved in the adhesive label action "for aiding the preparation of high treason and aiding the enemy," and sentenced them to death. Liane's and Friedrich's daughter Irina was born on 12 April 1943 in the women's prison on Barnimstraße. As the Reichskriegsgericht pronounced the sentence recommendation when checking with Adolf Hitler to dismiss the pregnant Liane Berkowitz from prison, he expressly rejected any reprieve. The death sentence was confirmed by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel and countersigned. The young mother was executed in Plötzensee Prison at 7.45 p.m on 5 August 1943, two days before her 20th birthday. Friedrich Rehmer had already been executed as early as on 13 May 1943. In 2013 it was revealed by the BBC that her body, like thousands of others, was delivered to anatomist Hermann Stieve to be dissected for research. Her final resting place is unknown. Her daughter Irina died on 16 October 1943 in the hospital in Eberswalde under unclear circumstances. Berkowitz was a member of the Russian Orthodox Church. Her letters from death row are marked by a deep faith. The Catholic prison chaplain Peter Buchholz enabled her to receive the Holy Communion on the day of her death, which was two days before her 20th birthday. Honours A memorial stele in the honour of Liane Berkowitz and other resistance fighters was erected in the courtyard of the Berlin Humboldt University on Unter den Linden in 1976 A memorial plaque marks her former residence on Viktoria-Luise-Platz No. 1 in Berlin-Schöneberg On 18 January 2000, a square in the Berlin district of Friedenau was named Liane-Berkowitz-Platz. Literature (In this volume, the prison letters and secret messages from Liane Berkowitz were printed). References External links Rejection of clemency (page 2) Red Orchestra (espionage) 1923 births 1943 deaths People from Berlin Executed German women