Willi Bleicher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German trade unionist
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Place of Birth: Bad Cannstatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Willi Bleicher
- Willi Bleicher (27 October 1907 - 23 June 1981) was one of the best known and, according to at least one source, one of the most important and effective German trades union leaders of the postwar decades.In 1965 Yad Vashem recognized Willi Bleicher as Righteous Among the Nations.
- This reflected Bleicher's wartime activities as a detainee at the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was one of those who risked their lives to save a child prisoner called Stefan Jerzy Zweig.
- The boy grew up to become an author and film maker.
- Thanks to a novel first published in 1958, and based on those events, the episode became widely known and celebrated.
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