There are 114 Czechs honored by
Israel as Righteous Among the Nations. While at
Yad Vashem, I happened to notice trees honoring two of these heroes.
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| Karla Andělová-Weisová |
Karla Andělová-Weisová was active in the anti-Nazi resistance and was apprehended. She served time in multiple prisons in Bohemia and Germany. She eventually ended up at the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
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While there, other prisoners nicknamed her "Andělka",
angel for having helped people. She took a Jewish boy under her wing after his parents died in the camp. Karla even brought the boy home to Prague after the war ended. A tree was planted in her honor in 1978.
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| Přemysl Pitter |
was a teacher and pacifist. At the end of WWII, he managed to provide sanctuary to almost a thousand children. The children were Jewish orphans from the concentration camps and Czech orphans whose parents had died in the fighting.
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He even took in German children whose parents had been killed following the liberation of
Czechoslovakia. Despite the personal consequences he always provided assistance to those who needed the most help. In 1964 his deeds were honored at Yad Vashem.
