Official Dedication of the Memorial Stele for Mildred Harnack-Fish at JLU
Channel: JLU Gießen
Date: 2021-09-15

We thank all participants who joined us in person and virtually to commemorate Mildred Harnack-Fish on September 15th 2021.

Justus Liebig University is honored to commemorate the life and death of Mildred Harnack-Fish, student of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduate of Justus Liebig University Giessen. 

Mildred Harnack-Fish was born in Milwaukee, USA, and fought against the Nazi regime of injustice as a resistance activist. She was executed in Berlin-Plötzensee prison in 1943.

The black marble stele, installed on the Campus of Cultural Studies and Humanities of JLU, is the counterpart of a sculpture dedicated to the resistance fighter at Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin.

This event is sponsored by the Hessen State Chancellery as part of 45th anniversary of the state partnership between Hessen and Wisconsin.