Lutz Witkowski

Lutz Witkowski (* 1925 in Breslau ) is a German author.

At the age of eleven, Lutz Witkowski fled to Shanghai with his aunts and uncles after his parents' divorce and the imminent death of his mother . At the age of only thirteen, Lutz Witkowski had to feed a six-person household as a minder in a factory. He lived in the working-class district of Hongkou , which from February 1943 onwards was turned into a kind of ghetto for stateless refugees by the Japanese occupying forces.

After the end of the war, Lutz Witkowski smuggled himself onto a ship that took him to the British-occupied island of Cyprus . There he met 15-year-old Gisela during his two-year stay in the internment camp , whom he married in 1950 in Israel .

The trained aircraft technician learned the profession of medical technician on his return to Germany . In 2000 Lutz Witkowski received the Federal Cross of Merit for his Israeli-German student exchange program .

Fonts

• Escape route Shanghai. Via China to Israel and back to Germany. Peter Lang Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-631-54721-8

Web links

• Article about the book Escape Route Shanghai