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Source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/berlin-jews-hid-from-nazis-on-tiny-island-for-18-months-cslhl29db
Berlin Jews Hid from Nazis on Tiny Island for 18 Months
(The Times-UK) David Crossland - A small group of German Jews lived in huts on Reiswerder, an island in Lake Tegel, 180 meters from shore, on the edge of Berlin, for 18 months during World War II until they were discovered by the Gestapo in August 1944. Reiswerder had been a popular weekend destination for locals. They are likely to have received help from Harry and Margarete Bonus, a non-Jewish couple who had leased the island and also lived on it, and from friends and relatives who weren't Jewish.