April 2th, 18:00 Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv University Campus
Film – „Julius Madritsch – A Righteous Among the Nations”
with Mrs. Lili Haber and Mrs. Naama Galil, Yad Vashem
Julius Madritsch’s path is a very peculiar one. An early supporter of the National-Socialist party, he turned into the pivotal figure in saving several hundred of persecuted people. Together with two fellow Austrians, Raimund Titsch and Oswald Bouska, he employed Jewish workers in his textile factories in occupied Poland during 1940-1944, thus preventing authorities to reach them. In a last ditch effort, after his businesses were closed down, he cooperated with Oskar Schindler in order to keep as many of his Jewish workers as possible in employment. In 1964, he and his colleagues were honoured with the medal of the Righteous Among the Nations bestowed by Israel’s Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Centre. This documentary, directed by Piotr Szalsza, retells the almost forgotten story of this Righteous Among the Nations.
Organisation: Association of Cracovians in Israel