2020年8月6日 · Berlin resident Herbert Baum, meanwhile, started the anti-Nazi, pro-communism Baum Group in the 1930s. When he was forced to work at a factory in 1940, Baum recruited other young forced...

While most Berlin Jews quietly prayed for better times after Hitler came to power, Herbert Baum and his small circle of Communist activists openly defied the Nazis by building a complex, multitiered cell apparatus and distributing leaflets calling for an overthrow of the regime.

Following a chance encounter with Herbert Baum, Holzer joined his resistance group of young, left-leaning Jews. When an anti-Soviet propaganda exhibition opened in Berlin, the Baum Group organized and executed an arson attack.

Baum Gruppe (Baum Group), underground anti-Nazi organization in Berlin. The Baum Gruppe, led by Herbert and Marianne Baum, was made up mainly of Jews who belonged to youth movements. Most were Communist, although some were left-wing Zionists. Almost all of the Baum Gruppe's members were quite young.

2023年4月22日 · Herbert Baum died on June 11, 1942, in Moabit prison. The circumstances of his death are still dubious. It was possibly a suicide, but torture could also have been the cause of death.

Herbert Baum, the son of an accountant and born in Posen in 1912, grew up in Berlin and became an electrician in 1928. He started to attend evening classes at the Beuth Academy to qualify as an electrical engineer, but was banned from attending further training classes in 1935 as he was Jewish.

BAUM, HERBERT (1912–1942), German Communist and anti-Nazi fighter. Baum was a member of the German communist youth movement from 1932 and led a clandestine Jewish communist cell in Berlin from 1936.

2022年3月7日 · The story of Herbert Baum and anti-fascism in the heart of Hitler's Reich is told through oral and written testimony of survivors, friends and relatives of group members, Nazi trial records and other primary documents of the period.

Herbert Baum had begun building his network of dissident groups and circles in the first days of the dictatorship, The Human Tradition in Modern Europe 141 and it would become the largest organization of German-Jewish resisters.

Herbert Baum (February 10, 1912 – June 11, 1942) was a Jewish member of the German resistance against National Socialism. Baum was born in Mosina, Province of Posen; his family moved to Berlin when he was young.