11/23/2025
While millions wore a yellow star, this young woman was forced to wear a purple triangle for one reason: her unflinching faith and her refusal to say 'Heil Hi**er.' Hermine Schmidt was just 17 when the Gestapo arrested her in 1943. Her journey through multiple concentration camps ended with her being abandoned at sea on a barge, a final, cruel act by a collapsing regime.