Language:
German
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Jüdische Welten
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2005) 248-268
Keywords:
Busse, Otto
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Germans History 20th century
;
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
;
Białystok (Poland)
Abstract:
Busse, a German, was drafted In World War II into a police reserve unit which was sent to Poland. In March 1943 he left the unit and began working as a house painter in Białystok, mainly renovating Wehrmacht hospitals and apartments vacated by Jewish residents. He employed Jews from the ghetto, from whom he learned about the atrocity of the Germans' actions. He then began sending supplies to Jews in the ghetto, and joined the local resistance. In late 1944 he was arrested by the Russians, and spent five years in a POW camp. In 1958 Busse contacted Chasia Bilitzka and Haika Grossman, who had worked with him in Białystok and were then living in Israel. He moved to Nes Ammim in Israel and died in 1980. In 1968, he was recognized as a "Righteous Gentile" by Yad Vashem.
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