Annemarie Hosenfeld

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilm_Hosenfeld

Annemarie Hosenfeld husband was Wilhelm Adalbert Hosenfeld (2 May 1895 – 13 August 1952), originally a schoolteacher, was a German Army officer who by the end of the Second World War had risen to the rank of Hauptmann (Captain). He helped to hide or rescue several Polish people, including Jews, in Nazi-German occupied Poland, and helped Jewish pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman to survive, hidden, in the ruins of Warsaw during the last months of 1944, an act which was portrayed in the 2002 film The Pianist. He was taken prisoner by the Red Army and died in Soviet captivity in 1952.

Annemarie Hosenfeld was left alone to care for their children. An exceedingly challenging time in Germany, for widows with children, finding work after the war was difficult. Their five children became successful adults.

Biography

Annemarie Hosenfeld was born circa 1900 in Osterholz, Niedersachsen, Germany. Her parents were Karl Eugen Krummacher and Frida Minna Marie Anna Krummacher.

Annemarie married Wilm Hosenfeld in 1920. Together they had the following children:

• Helmut Hosenfeld Krummacher;
• Anemone Hosenfeld Krummacher;
• Detlev Hosenfeld Krummacher;
• Jorinde Hosenfeld;
• Uta Hosenfeld.

She died in 1971.

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