Introducing: Eva-Maria Buch

This month, let’s remember Eva-Maria Buch, from Charlottenburg in Berlin, a devout Catholic and linguistics student at the Humboldt University. Alongside her studies, she worked in a second-hand bookstore, where she encountered leftist thinkers, and members of...

Book of the month: Unorthodox, by Deborah Feldman

This month, you might be especially interested to read Deborah Feldman’s memoir ‘Unorthodox.’ Feldman left the ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to move to Berlin in 2014. Her story has been adapted into a Netflix...

Introducing: Judy the dog

We all deserve a smile this month, so let’s have a four-legged hero! Have you heard of a Pointer named Judy, mascot of the Royal Navy and the only canine POW during WWII? On board the HMS Gnat and HMS Grasshopper, she proved a failure as a gundog, but her...

Introducing: Elise and Otto Hampel

This month, I am thinking of Elise and Otto Hampel, a working-class couple who lived on Amsterdamer Strasse in the Northern district of Wedding. Increasingly disillusioned with life in Germany under Nazism, they began in 1940 to write postcards denouncing Hitler and...