In the history of German resistance to Nazism , some names have become symbols: Sophie Scholl , Claus von Stauffenberg , Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Georg Elser . Yet many others have remained largely forgotten.

Among them is Eva Mamlok, a young Jewish woman from Berlin whose acts of defiance began in her teenage years and continued until her murder in a Nazi concentration camp.

Now more people will get to know her story as Berlin renames Blücherplatz, a square in the district of Kreuzberg, Eva-Mamlok-Platz on October 16.

"Eva Mamlok was a very remarkable person. As a young Jewish woman from Berlin, her spirit of resistance was particularly striking," said cultural researcher Alexandra Weltz-Rombach, who has worked extensively with the historians' network "Gruppe Eva Mamlok."

'Down with Hitler'

Mamlok was born on May 6, 1918, into a Jewish family in Berlin.…