Erwin Lutz
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Erwin Lutz is an Austria
n “Righteous Among the Nations
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In 1944 the police officer Erwin Lutz was working as a chef in a prison in Innsbruck
. Together with police inspector Rudi Moser he decided to save five Jewish Polish girls from deportation into a concentration camp. He convinced his bosses in the prison administration to remove the girls’ papers from the files and to give them jobs in his prison kitchen.
When orders came to transport all prisoners to KZ-Bergen-Belsen
on January 18, 1945 they organized the escape of the five girls. Two of them managed to flee.
Erwin Lutz offered them his apartment in Ahorndorfstraße 3 as first shelter.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n “Righteous Among the Nations
Righteous Among the Nations
Righteous among the Nations of the world's nations"), also translated as Righteous Gentiles is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis....
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In 1944 the police officer Erwin Lutz was working as a chef in a prison in Innsbruck
Innsbruck
- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...
. Together with police inspector Rudi Moser he decided to save five Jewish Polish girls from deportation into a concentration camp. He convinced his bosses in the prison administration to remove the girls’ papers from the files and to give them jobs in his prison kitchen.
When orders came to transport all prisoners to KZ-Bergen-Belsen
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle...
on January 18, 1945 they organized the escape of the five girls. Two of them managed to flee.
Erwin Lutz offered them his apartment in Ahorndorfstraße 3 as first shelter.