Susanna Weiss was a professor of Medieval English at the Friedrich Wilhelm University. She was also a secret Jew living in Berlin in the Greater German Reich. She and the Stutzmans were present when Heinrich and Lise Gimpel told their 10-year-old daughter Alicia that she, too, was Jewish. In 2011, Susanna joined the Gimpels when they told their second daughter, Francesca, that she was Jewish.