Irene Wosikowski ( 9 February 1910 - 27 October 1944 ) was a German political activist ( KPD ) . After 1933 she continued with her ( now illegal ) political activity in Germany till 1935 . The next two years were spent in Moscow after which , as instructed by the party , she moved to Paris which had become one of two de facto capitals for the exiled German Communist Party . She worked on political education and publishing till 1940 when she was placed in the Gurs internment camp . After her escape she joined the Résistance . Living " underground " ( unregistered ) she managed to remain at liberty till July 1943 , despite the intensely dangerous nature of much of her resistance work , which included approaching German soldiers and engaging in " political " discussions to try and persuade them to face up to the accelerating savagery of the Shoah . Following her arrest Wosikowski was subjected to a sustained programme of torture and taken back to Germany where she was executed at Plötzensee on the edge of Berlin
Shoah
The Holocaust
Irene Wosikowski