On Thursday, November 13, the Jewish Museum Creglingen Foundation will present a reading by freelance journalist and author Frank Littek, who will introduce his book “Rescuers in Dark Times – A Comprehensive Overview of German Righteous Among the Nations.”
During the Third Reich, 651 Germans risked their own lives to save Jewish fellow citizens from murder. After the war, they were honored as “Righteous Among the Nations” by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. There were many ways to help. They ranged from hiding people in their own homes to forging documents to directly confronting the SS at gunpoint.
What motivated these people to act? The first part of the book provides insight into this question with 100 selected portraits of the rescuers. The best known is Oskar Schindler. The fate of most of the rescuers and their protégés, on the other hand, remains largely unknown to the general public to this day. Although their stories were often so daring and dramatic that it is hard to imagine. In 1942, for example, Heinrich Heinen, a young man from Cologne, made a spontaneous decision to travel to Riga to personally rescue his Jewish fiancée, who had recently been deported, from the ghetto.
In the second part of the book, all 651 Righteous and their acts of rescue are recounted for the first time in short portraits. A framework explaining the historical background and the work of Yad Vashem rounds off the book.
Frank Littek is an economist and has been working as a journalist, press spokesman for large companies, and author for around 40 years. He writes for many major newspapers and has published around 40 books with renowned publishers.
The reading will take place on November 13 at 7:00 p.m. at the Jewish Museum.
Admission is free.
Neueste Kommentare