Albert Battel [SEP] date of death
Albert Battel
Albert Battel (21 January 1891 – 1952) was a German Army lieutenant and lawyer recognized for his resistance during World War II to the Nazi plans for the 1942 liquidation of the Przemyśl Jewish ghetto. He was posthumously recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1981.
Life and military career.
Battel was born in Klein-Pramsen (Prężynka), Prussian Silesia. After serving in World War I, he studied economics and jurisprudence in Munich and Breslau (Wrocław).
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to be recognised only a long time after his death; most notably, through the tenacious efforts of the Israeli researcher and lawyer Dr. Zeev Goshen.
On 22 January 1981, almost 30 years after his death, Yad Vashem recognised Albert Battel as Righteous among the Nations.
External links.
- Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'
- Righteous Among the Nations (Start: 37:31; Length 10:57)
- Albert Battel – his activity to save Jews' lives at the Holocaust, at Yad