Mina and Otto Kuttelwascher
Otto Kuttelwascher was an Austrian plumber who lived with his wife Hermine Kuttelwascher and their three children in the 2nd district near the Danube Canal in Vienna . As neighbors, they had a Jewish family consisting of two unmarried daughters and their elderly parents.
The father of the Jewish family died under the pressure to which he was exposed from National Socialism . The daughters were called Käthe and Erna. Käthe was sent to a block of flats for Jews . Her sister Erna was at work at the time of arrest and did not report to the Gestapo as she was ordered to. She found shelter with Otto and Hermine Kuttelwascher and emigrated to America after the war .
In 1980, the Kuttelwaschers were honored by the Israeli Yad Vashem Memorial as Righteous Among the Nations .
In 2012, the Kuttelwascherweg in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after the two of them.
literature
- Israel Gutman, Sara Bender, Daniel Fraenkel, Jacob Borut: Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations: Germans and Austrians, Volume 1. Wallstein Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3892449007 , p. 323f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- René Marcic, Michael Fischer (ed.): Dimensions of the law. Volume 1. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3428029895 , p. 1182 ( limited preview in Google book search).