below is information regarding a recently established museum
>honoring Otto Weidt, a man who ran a workshop for blind jews during world
>war two and saved their lives. Most of the material is in German .
Link ito site is below. entire text of page in English is below that. Lilith
>
>http://www.blindes-vertrauen.de/introduction.html
>
>
>Blind Confidence - Hidden at the 'Hackescher Markt' 1941-1943
>
> The exhibition tells the history of a working home for blind and deaf
>people in National Socialist Berlin. It employed mainly Jews, producing
>brooms and brushes. The production of brooms and brushes for army use gave
>the firm the status "essential for the war efforts". This justified a
>work-place also for blind Jews even for the Nazi - until the day of
>deportation.
>
> But the owner Otto Weidt, did not let himself get influenced by "Nazi"
>ideology and tried by every means to help "his" Jews to make their survival
>in the Third Reich possible.
>
> Not only did he hide a family of four in a room camouflaged by a
>cupboard in his workshop or bring back workers from the deportation transit
>camp by bribing the Gestapo, he even went to Auschwitz to help his great
>love to escape from the KZ.
>
> The workshop existed in the Rosenthaler Straße 39 in "Berlin - Mitte"
>from 1941 to 1945. For the Jews working there, every day at Weidt meant a
>further day of survival.
>
> The exhibition is dedicated to the commitment of Otto Weidt for his
>Jewish fellow citizens. The discovery of the former workshop rooms in their
>original condition, in all their oppressive atmosphere of the hide-out of
>the Jewish family Horn, inspired us to make this place accessible for the
>public. And we also want to remind the public of this act of courage.
>
> One part of the exhibition is an interview on video, where the two
>survivors - Inge Deutschkron and Hans Israelowicz - will report on their
>memories working at Weidt during the war.
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