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Podcast: LBI London
Episode: Who was Fritz Kittel? A German Railway Worker Decides, 1933–2022
Description: Reading: Esther Dischereit together with Jonny Ball.
In 2023, Esther Dischereit created an exhibition in cooperation with Deutsche Bahn to honour the railroad worker Fritz Kittel. In 1944 and 1945, he hid her mother Hella and sister Hannelore, who as Jews were persecuted by the Gestapo and threatened with death in Germany under National Socialism. They were liberated by U.S. troops in 1945. Dischereit began to search for the family of the rescuer and found them in 2019. Fritz Kittel had not told his own family about his courageous act throughout his life.
Esther Dischereit's literary response in 17 text...