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Willi Bleicher
1907–1981
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- trade unionist
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Buchenwald concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Willi Bleicher (German pronunciation: [Ëvɪli Ëblaɪ̯çÉ] ; 27 October 1907 â 23 June 1981) was one of the best known and, according to at least one source, one of the most important and effective German trades union leaders of the post-war decades. In 1965 Yad Vashem recognized Willi Bleicher as Righteous Among the Nations. This reflected Bleicher's wartime activities as a detainee at the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was one of those who risked their lives to save a child prisoner called Stefan Jerzy Zweig. The boy grew up to become an author and film maker. Thanks to a novel first published in 1958, and based on those events, the episode became widely known and celebrated.
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