Berlin's Blücherplatz Renamed to Honor Eva Mamlok, Jewish Anti-Fascist Resistance Fighter

Berlin's Blücherplatz will be renamed Eva-Mamlok-Platz on October 16, 2026, in honor of Eva Mamlok, a Jewish anti-fascist resistance fighter who was murdered in a Nazi concentration camp. Mamlok began her acts of defiance against the Nazi regime as a teenager, including painting anti-Hitler slogans and participating in underground resistance activities. Cultural researcher Alexandra Weltz-Rombach emphasized Mamlok's remarkable spirit of resistance. Mamlok was born on May 6, 1918, in Berlin to a Jewish family that ran a wholesale wine business. She became politically active at the age of 14 when Adolf Hitler became chancellor in 1933. After being arrested for participating in commemorations for socialist leaders, she was placed in protective custody and later released. Despite the increasing dangers, she continued her anti-Nazi activities and formed the 'Eva Mamlok Group,' a resistance network of women who distributed anti-Nazi literature and shared banned books. Mamlok was deported to the Riga Ghetto in 1942 and later to the Stutthof concentration camp, where she died in December 1944. The renaming of Blücherplatz, previously named after Prussian field marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, is seen as a shift towards honoring figures like Mamlok in the context of resistance against Nazism. Weltz-Rombach has been researching Mamlok's biography and aims to raise awareness about her story through various projects, including an exhibition and a podcast series.