Liese Dreyer way

A path on the grounds of the university has commemorated the last director of the Jewish orphanage, Liese Dreyer, since 2003. Rose Elise ‚Liese‘ Dreyer was born in Rietberg on July 10, 1895. In 1914, she moved from Cologne, where she probably trained as an educator, to Paderborn to work in the Jewish orphanage on Leostraßlig. In 1930, Liese Dreyer succeeded her aunt as director of the orphanage, which not only housed orphans but also poor children from Jewish families, who were to be provided with food and accommodation as well as education and schooling. Liese Dreyer succeeded in taking younger children away from Germany as part of the so-called child emigration program. Liese Dreyer accompanied the remaining children to Ahlem near Hanover together with teacher David Köln and kindergarten teacher Ella Feldmeier. There had been a Jewish horticultural school there, but conditions there were now similar to those in a camp, as the horticultural school was already serving as a collection point for Jews from the administrative districts of Hanover and Hildesheim. Liese Dreyer was deported from Ahlem to Auschwitz on March 2, 1943, where she met her certain death.