Otto Weidt’s broom and brush factory
Otto Weidt’s broom and brush factory
We really do recommend that you can visit Otto Weidt’s Blindenwerkstatt, or workshop for the blind which is in the Hackesche Höfe,Here his mostly Jewish employees worked and continued to work all through the war. He bribed Gestapo officers when he needed to, he organized food and clothing for his charges, he arranged for them to have false IDs.When the war ended, Otto Weidt fought to have the Jewish orphanage nearby given back to the decimated Jewish community, and turned an old age home into one for Holocaust survivors.Today his factory is a museum. Otto Weidt was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1971.
As seen on
Centropa Jewish Berlin Tour
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