Correspondence with Wörl, Ludwig

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/1583
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 110089
Dates
2 May 1958 - 9 Mar 1959
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Ludwig Wörl (1906-1967) was a German Anti-Nazi resistance fighter and survivor of concentration camps Dachau, Flossenbürg and Auschwitz. Holding several positions in the camps’ prisoner functionary system he helped to save numerous Jewish inmates. After the war Wörl campaigned for the German committee of Auschwitz survivors, and took stand as witness in the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt am Main. In 1963 Yad Vashem recognized him as Righteous among the Nations.

See Gutman, I. (ed.), The encyclopedia of the righteous among the nations: rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. Europe (Part 1) and other countries, Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, 2007, pp. 164-65.

Scope and Content

Containing letters by The Wiener Library exclusively the correspondence concerns an eyewitness account Wörl had contributed to Library’s eyewitness testimony project.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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Related Units of Description

People

  • Wörl, Ludwig

Subjects

Places

  • Third Reich [1933-1945]
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