Stella Goldschlag A collaborator of Jewish origin, she collaborated with the Gestapo, helping to identify Jews hiding from being sent to concentration camps. Country: Israel

1. Biography of Stella Goldschlag
2. Collaboration with the Nazis
3. Family's Deportation and Continued Collaboration
4. Literature

Biography of Stella Goldschlag

Stella Goldschlag (nee Stella Kübler, 1922-1994) was a collaborator of Jewish origin who worked with the Gestapo to help identify Jews in hiding to be sent to concentration camps. She initially began collaborating with the Nazis in order to save her own relatives from Auschwitz, but continued her cooperation even after their destruction. She was found guilty of causing the deaths of at least 600 Jews. She lived in Berlin and, after finishing school during the Nazi regime, she pursued a career as a fashion designer. Shortly before the start of the war, she married Manfred Kübler, a musician of Jewish descent, and they both worked on forced labor in a factory in Berlin.

Collaboration with the Nazis

Around 1942, when large-scale deportations of Jews to death camps began, Stella managed to hide due to her "Aryan" appearance, being a blonde with blue eyes. Despite this, she was arrested in early 1943. In order to save her parents from deportation, she agreed to cooperate with the Nazis. On the orders of the Gestapo, she searched Berlin for Jews in hiding; once she found them, she offered them "help" and then informed the Gestapo about their whereabouts. The number of her victims varies between 600 and 3000. These victims could hardly be compensated by a few former classmates or acquaintances she managed to hide.

Family's Deportation and Continued Collaboration

Despite her collaboration, both her parents and her husband's family were sent to concentration camps. Nevertheless, even after this, she did not stop cooperating until March 1945, when the last train with deported Jews left Berlin for the Theresienstadt Ghetto. After the war, she attempted to hide. She gave birth to a daughter named Ivonna Meisel, who is still alive and has a highly negative attitude towards her mother. Stella Kübler was arrested by Soviet intelligence services in October 1945 and sentenced to 10 years in prison. She later returned to West Berlin, where she received another 10-year sentence, which she did not serve due to her previous imprisonment. She married a former Nazi. At the age of 72, she committed suicide.

Literature

- Wyden, Peter: Stella. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992
- Ros, Martin: Schakale des Dritten Reiches. Untergang der Kollaborateure 1944—1945. Stuttgart: Neske, 1997
- Benz Wolfgang (Ed.): Überleben im Dritten Reich. Juden im Untergrund und ihre Helfer; C. H. Beck Verlag, München 2003