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His family life had a Catholic character, and Christian charitable work was emphasised during his education.

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He also took advantage of the relative freedom he enjoyed to employ several Poles, both Christians and Jews, which saved their lives. Ashamed of what some of their countrymen were doing, they offered help to those they could whenever possible. According to the son, Detlev, this was the favorite photo of his mother. Further on we can read, in relation to the holocaust: "There are hardly any precedents in history; perhaps primitive men practiced cannibalism; but that in the middle of the 20th century a people, men, women and children are annihilated, we are burdened with such horrible guilt of blood that one would like the earth to swallow it I am ashamed to walk in the city….

Five years later, on 7 May a military tribunal in Minsk sentenced him to 25 years in prison. Related Documents Two pages from the diary of Hosenfeld from the year Worldwide antisemitism is on the rise. Detlev Hosenfeld in the Garden of the Righteous where the name of his father is on the wall. The outbreak of World War II did not catch Wilm Hosenfeld unawares, for as early as 26 August he was called up, initially with the rank of sergeant with which he had ended the Great War.

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Commemorations [ edit ]. Hosenfeld died in a Soviet prison in They are beasts. Szpilman applied to Yad Vashem in to have his rescuer recognized. The texts survived because he would regularly send the notebooks home. We have no right for compassion or mercy; we all have a share in the guilt. After serving as a soldier in World War I, he became a teacher, and taught at a local school.

In March , Hosenfeld was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and perform hard labor , for alleged war crimes, solely on the account of being a German officer. Translation of the article into English. Hosenfeld spent most of the war years as a sports and culture officer, rising from the rank of sergeant to captain. We don't deserve anything else.

In January Hosenfeld was taken prisoner by the Soviets. When, last summer, the horrible massacres of Jews, children and women took place, then I knew very clearly: now we are going to lose the war, for with that a struggle which was legitimized by the search for food and land had lost all meaning. See also [ edit ]. Tools Tools.

Later, the pianist would declare that Hosenfeld was "the only one person in German uniform" that he knew. Drive to Yad Vashem:. A second aspect is the practice of faith: "On Sunday I went to church early and went to communion. Hosenfeld said goodbye to Wladyslaw Szpilman on December 12, On February 16, , following a request by Wladyslaw Szpilman in and after several years of efforts by the "pianist's" son, Wilm Hosenfeld was named "righteous among the nations" by the committee of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.