Well,Communists and their families *were* among the targets of the Gestapo.
There was woman named Gerda Lerner who was a Holocaust survivor and a committed communist who taught at the UW-Madison for many years and died recently. She never recanted her communist beliefs. So was she someone to be honored or reviled? Was Benedict Arnold a hero or a traitor? Arnold helped his country to a number victories early in the war. Then he betrayed it. So guess what I think of Red Gerner. Surviving an evil like Nazism does not automatically make you a hero.