217:(little garden house) outside Berlin. The second marriage with Kammergerichtsrat Georg Scheffler was forbidden in May 1934 because she was "half-Jewish". Nevertheless, the two (almost) lived together. She worked as a bookkeeper in a friend's business and distributed ration cards in her residential district during the war. From January 1945 until the end of the war, she hid in a leaf colony outside Berlin.
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