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Paasche, Maria (1909–2000) Anti-Nazi activist in the 1930s. Name variations: Maria Therese von Hammerstein. Born Maria Therese von Hammerstein in 1909 in Magdeburg, Germany; died on January 21, 2000, in San Francisco, California; daughter of General Kurt von Hammerstein (commander-in-chief of the German army, 1930–34, and anti-Hitler ...

Maria Paasche, who helped Jews escape from Nazi Germany on the back of her motorcycle and whose father and brothers conspired to kill Hitler, died Jan. 21 in a San Francisco nursing home. She was...

Maria Therese von Hammerstein Paasche was a German anti-Nazi activist and literary researcher. She transported Jews out of Germany in the early years of the Nazi regime and later emigrated from Nazi Germany to Japan, where she lived for several years before settling in the United States.

2000-02-05 04:00:00 PDT San Francisco -- Maria Paasche, who helped Jews escape Nazi Germany and whose brothers and father tried unsuccessfully to keep Hitler from power, died January 21 in San...

They evaded capture and went into hiding, but Maria Paasche's two youngest siblings and her mother were jailed in concentration camps, in retaliation, until they were liberated in 1945. Today, her family is scattered across several continents, but one of Paasche's two daughters lives in San Francisco.

An obituary on Sunday about Maria Paasche, who helped Jews flee Nazi Germany, misspelled the surname of the former German chancellor who praised her father, Gen. Kurt von Hammerstein, for his part ...

Maria Paasche, who helped Jews escape from Nazi Germany, died at 90. In the 1930s, Paasche transported Jews on her motorcycle to Prague before that city came under Nazi occupation.

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