German Resistance Memorial Center
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Hilde Meisel grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Berlin. She joined the International Socialist Combat League (ISK) at the age of 15 and worked as an editor for the league's daily newspaper Der Funke in 1932/33. In 1934 she went into exile in Paris, where she adopted the name Hilda Monte, then emigrated to London in 1936. There, she published numerous articles and wrote radio shows for the BBC, reporting on the National Socialist terror and warning of the threat of war. Hilda Monte traveled illegally to Germany several times up to 1939, to provide ISK resistance fighters with money and information. She developed specific concepts for a federal European community with the aim of securing peace in Europe after the war, published in her 1943 book The Unity of Europe. At the beginning of 1945, Hilda Monte responded to requests from Austrian socialists to make contact with the resistance in the Vorarlberg region. On her return from Austria, she was arrested on the Austrian-Liechtenstein border in April 1945 and shot dead attempting to escape.