Fritz Müller (Righteous Among the Nations)

Fritz Müller was a Wehrmacht soldier who was recognized by the Yad Vashem memorial as Righteous Among the Nations .

During the Second World War he was stationed on a farm in his capacity as a gardener in Choroszcz near Białystok, Poland . There he made friends with the Polish Jew Ignatz Buchholz, who worked there and lived in the ghetto of nearby Bialystok. When Müller became aware of the planned liquidation of the ghetto, he warned his Jewish friend, hid him in the farm and told the Gestapo that he had fled to the partisans . He provided Buchholz with food in his hiding place for a few days and then took him to friends in his car.

In Mönchengladbach a street was named after Fritz Müller, and in 1984 he was posthumously named Righteous Among the Nations .

Fritz Müller and his wife had two children.

Web links

• Short biography in the database yadvashem.org (The Righteous Among The Nations)