Klara Kaus was born in 1903 and she grew in a home of democratic
ideas in southern Germany. She, her parents and her husband
condemned the persecution of Jews by National Socialists. During
the year 1943 a known Jew asked her if she was willing to
helping persecuted Jews. Thus, Klara made contacts with the
Jewish spouses Adolf and Sophie Loebel and their two daughters
Hannelore and Ellen. Klara visited the family in the city of
Karlsruhe and spontaneously offered to hide the daughters in her
house of Mannheim to protect them from imminent deportation. Due
to the fact that Mrs. Loebel had already organized a hideout for
herself and her youngest daughter Hannelore, she asked Klara
Kaus to help her daughter Ellen. By the end of June 1943, Ellen
went to the Kaus’ house in Manheim. They housed the 16 year-old
girl who had no papers of money, hid her and kept her at their
home. After Mr. Kaus was called to the military service, his
wife had the responsibility. Klara Kaus took care of the girl
until the end of the w