Germany overtook the 101-year-old Israeli female citizenship weekend 84 years after it was taken back by the Nazis.
German Ambassador to Israel Susanne Wasum-Rainer and the German Consul Dr. Lars-Uwe Kettner arrived Saturday at Edith Ramon’s home to deliver her passport in person.
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101-year-old Edith Ramon (seated, left) regains German citizenship after 84 years
(Photo: German Ambassador to Israel)
“It is a great honor for us that Edith wants to become a German citizen again and that is why we came to her,” said Ambassador Wasum-Rainer.
Enthusiastic Ramon asked the German ambassador if they were friends now, to which she replied, “Indeed we are friends, it is an honor to return citizenship to an impressive woman like yourself, here in an Israel. “
Ramon (nee Nachman) was born in Germany in 1920 and lived in the southern city of Rastatt.
After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Ramon’s mother, Elsa, recognized the imminent danger when the family car was set on fire in a suspected anti-Semitic attack.
Ramon entered Israel in 1937 and began working in agriculture when he arrived in the country. Her parents joined her shortly afterwards, settling in Gedera.
Ramon then moved to Tel Aviv and worked in housework to support her parents. She was again one of the founding members of Kibbutz Gesher, where she met her husband Moshe who also came from Germany.
One of Ramon’s grandchildren, who lives in England, decided the following Brexit to find out if she was entitled to regain her German citizenship under a change to the German constitution, which allows people born in Germany whose citizenship was revoked by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945 to regain it.