User:Ariel Cetrone (WMDC)/sandbox

Erich Elkan (1907-1943) was a Jewish lawyer from Berlin, Germany. He helped 180 Jewish children escape Nazi persecution by falsifying documents. Sixty of the children were from one orphanage.

Elkan was murdered in Sobibor extermination camp on July 9, 1943. There is a Stolperstein in his memory in Berlin.