Otto Kuttelwascher is an Austria

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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He lived in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, together with his wife Hermine "Mina" Kuttelwascher and three children. A Jewish family, 2 girls and their parents, was living next to them.

The father of the Jewish family died under the pressure that the Nazis put on him. One of the daughters was sent to a collective apartment for Jews. Otto and Hermine offered the other girl to stay at their apartment. She survived the war and later emigrated to America

United States

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Links

• http://www1.yadvashem.org/righteous_new/index.html
• http://www.gedenkdienst.org/deutsch/gerechte/inhalt.php
• http://www.lettertothestars.at/righteous_pers.php?uid=73