Paula Huelle
Germany

A widow who owned a tobacco store in Berlin, Paula Huelle gathered the children of Jewish people she knew and hid them in her home. By bribing a Gestapo official with cigars and cigarettes she was able to learn when registration of Jews was to take place. Fearing for the children's safety she purchased property in the country and smuggled the children to the farm she built there. Once a woman of means, Paula Huelle sold her jewelry and used her savings to provide food and shelter for those she rescued.

Ms. Huelle was a resident for 19 years at the Lutheran Home for the Aged in Arlington Heights, Illinois, until her death in 1992.