The technology museum commemorates the heroic deeds of a railway worker Photo: Deutsche Bahn
From BZ/dpa
The railway worker Fritz Kittel hid two Jewish women during the Nazi dictatorship. Now an exhibition commemorates him
The German Reichsbahn played a significant role in the murder of European Jews, Sinti and Roma. People were transported to the extermination camps on their trains.
With the exhibition “Who was Fritz Kittel? A Reichsbahn worker decides – two families 1933-2023″ in the Technology Museum, Deutsche Bahn wants to illuminate its Nazi past from different sides. The show was opened on Tuesday by the Berlin writer Esther Dischereit.
The exhibition tells of Hella and Hannelore Zacharias, whom the railway worker Fritz Kittel hid from the Nazis Photo: Deutsche Bahn
The railroad worker Fritz Kittel hid their mother Hella and sister Hannelore Zacharias during the Nazi era. Thanks to people like him, both Jewish women survived the Holocaust. After 1945 he never told his family about his crime.
The traveling exhibition also discusses the role of the Reichsbahn in the Nazi dictatorship, as well as the fate of Jewish railway workers.
Until April 30, Trebbiner Straße 9, Tue-Fri 9 a.m.-5.30 p.m., ☎ 90 25 40