Julius Madritsch

Julius Madritsch (* August 4, 1906 in Vienna, † June 11, 1984 ) was an Austrian Jewish savior who in 1964 awarded by Yad Vashem as " Righteous among the Nations ".

Madritsch in 1940 convened the German Wehrmacht. He was trained as a textile salesman and was employed as a trustee of two Jewish clothing manufacturers in the vicinity of the Krakow Ghetto. In 1941 he was allowed to also set up directly on the site Ghetto another factory, later followed by a branch in the ghetto Tarnow. In the factories, he worked as many Jews as possible ( including largely unskilled laborers ), who were so from deportation to extermination camps safely. Together with his factory manager, Raimund Titsch made ​​Madritsch for humane working conditions and increased food rations for the Jewish forced laborers, some were in the kitchens of the factories even kosher food. Along with Oswald Bosko, who was responsible as a police officer for the guarding of the Krakow Ghetto, he helped Jews repeatedly to escape from the Warsaw ghetto and smuggled into food.

1942 Julius Madritsch learned of the impending deportation of children from the ghetto to Auschwitz. They then smuggled the children of their workers from the ghetto to the factories, where this is brought out of the country or could be hidden in Polish families. In the same way, hundreds of Jewish families were saved, which is in the " resolution " of the ghetto in March 1943 had hidden in cellars and bunkers in the ghetto area.

With the liquidation of the ghetto, the employees working in the factories workers were interned in a concentration camp Plaszow, where they arrived at the request Madritschs request to walk to the factories. When, after September 1943, leaving the camp was no longer allowed Madritsch moved his factory on the camp grounds. Under the pretext to distribute additional food as "bonus for good performance ," he brought large quantities of food into the camp, which he distributed to prisoners also not dealt with him.

As the Plaszow concentration camp was disbanded in September 1944, all failed efforts of Madritsch and Titsch to retain their workers by the classification of its factories as " essential war production " from deportation; Only about a hundred people could be accommodated in the ammunition factory of Oskar Schindler.

Madritsch died in 1984 and was buried in the Viennese central cemetery.

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