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Schmid, Anton

(1900--1942), German soldier who rescued Jews during World War II. While serving in Vilna as a sergeant in the Wehrmacht, Schmid came in contact with a group of Jews from the Vilna ghetto who were assigned to work for his unit.Schmid treated them kindly, and they grew to trust him. After hearing about the massacres at Ponary in late 1941, Schmid decided to do whatever he could to rescue Jews. He released Jews who were being detained in the Lakishki jail, secretly brought food and supplies to Jews in the ghetto, and hid Jews in the cellars of three houses under his supervision. He ...

Schmid Anton

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Schmid, Anton Anton Schmid was born in 1900 in Vienna, where he owned a business in Klosterneuburger Street in Wien-Brigittenau that sold technical, electronic and radio equipment. He was married and the father of a daughter. In 1938, after the German annexation of Austria, Schmid helped Jewish acquaintances to get to the Czech border in order to escape. In 1941, as part of his service in the German military, Schmid was stationed in Vilna in occupied Lithuania. Holding the rank of sergeant (Feldwebel), he was responsible for a unit that collected German soldiers that had lost track of their original...

Nationality : Austria

Religion : Catholic

Fate : Murdered

Farewell letter sent by Righteous Among the Nations Anton Schmid to his wife, Stefanie, and accompanying documents, 13 April 1942

Farewell letter sent by Righteous Among the Nations Anton Schmid to his wife, Stefanie, and accompanying documents, 13 April 1942 There are three letters in the file: - Letter of response sent by an officer holding the rank of Captain to Stefanie Schmid, regarding the field trial conducted against her husband, Anton Schmid, 25 March 1942; - Farewell letter sent by Anton Schmid from Vilna to his wife and daughter telling of his imminent execution on the charge of rescuing Jews and others, 13 April 1942; - Letter sent by the military chaplain Fritz Kropp to Stefanie Schmidt containing an announcement of...

File Number : 49

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Veser Collection survey regarding the activities of the Righteous Among the Nations, Anton Schmid, in Vilna, 1941-1942

Veser Collection survey regarding the activities of the Righteous Among the Nations, Anton Schmid, in Vilna, 1941-1942 Occupation of Vilna by the Germans, June 1941; putting together Jewish forced laborers and German overseers who provided them with protection from "Aktions"; case of a German officer with the rank of Lieutenant who took care of 900 Jews who worked for him and received from them clothing and footwear as a gift, September 1941; Jewish forced laborers who gave presents to German overseers at the end of every month in order to earn the extension of their employment; spread of the knowledge...

File Number : 50

Type of Material : Survey, Survey Report

Language : Yiddish

Publications, correspondence and articles regarding the character of Righteous Among the Nations, Anton Schmid; documentation of the German-Jewish writer Hermann Adler who survived due to Anton Schmid and wrote about him; documentation regarding Righteous Among the Nations Carl Lutz, 1944-1990 - Audio cassette containing a broadcast by Hermann Adler devoted to Anton Schmid (pp. 2-4); - Correspondence between Hermann Adler, a German-Jewish writer who was rescued by Anton Schmid, and Bronia Klibanski on the subject of Schmid, dated 1987-1990, including much information regarding Schmid and pertaining to his...

File Number : 51

Type of Material : Research Article, Article, List

Language : French, German, Yiddish, Hungarian

Anita Adler nee Diestler

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Anita Adler nee Diestler. During the war was in Wilna, Poland.
Anita survived the Shoah.

The Information on Anita Adler nee Diestler is based on 1 records

List of Victims Recorded in Righteous Among the Nations Files

Hermann Adler

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Hermann Adler was born, 1911.
Hermann survived the Shoah.

The Information on Hermann Adler is based on 1 records

List of Victims Recorded in Righteous Among the Nations Files

Edek Adek Elijahu Boraks

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Kalisz

Poland

Edek Adek Elijahu Boraks was born in Kalisz, Poland, 1918. During the war he was in Bialystok, Poland.
Edek Adek Elijahu was murdered in the Shoah. Place of death: unknown, 1943.

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List of Victims Recorded in Righteous Among the Nations Files

Reports written about the Vilna Ghetto and the Bialystok Ghetto, 1943

Reports written about the Vilna Ghetto and the Bialystok Ghetto, 1943 1. Excerpt from a report written by the Bialystok Judenrat for the Gestapo regarding the employment of Jews in the ghetto, 02 April 1943, and evacuation, February 1943; Note: One page; the excerpt is a copy of the original material dug up from deep in the ground and taken out of the ghetto. 2. Report written, apparently by Hermann Adler in Budapest, Hungary (after he escaped from Warsaw, Poland), regarding Mordechaj Tenenbaum, the Hechalutz movement, and activities of Anton Schmidt in the Vilna Ghetto, November 1943. Note: 24...

File Number : 14

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

”After All, I Have Only Saved Human Beings” – The Farewell

Letter of a German Wehrmacht Sergeant Sentenced to Death for Saving Jews Anton Schmid was a German Wehrmacht sergeant sentenced to death and executed by the Nazis for saving Jews. Yad Vashem recognized him posthumously as a "Righteous Among the Nations" and planted a tree in his name in the Avenue of the Righteous at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Memorial, Jerusalem.Below are Anton's farewell letter to his wife and a letter from an army priest concerning his execution.The Letter From The Military Authorities Informing Mrs Schmid of Her Husband`s Trial Office, Field...

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