Plan for Concentration Camp rescue

Pitter, Přemysl. Dokončená dvouletka pro záchranu dětí z koncentračních a internačních táborů [The Completed Two-Year Plan for Rescuing Children from Concentration and Internment Camps] and Pohledy do dětských duší [A View into the Souls of Children]. ca. 1947. Mimeographed, text on both sides of 1940s paper. 4to. 25 pp. and 22 pp. As issued in original orange wrappers. String bound. The first part is a report on rescuing of the Akce Zamky (Chateau Project) a unique humanitarian project to help children returning from concentration camps, which was extended to children from internment camps for Germans. Pitter organized the project with Olga Fierzová; the second is the transcript of interviews with several of the children. Přemysl Pitter was a Czech Protestant preacher, writer, publicist, radical pacifist and social worker. During World War II, despite strict prohibitions, he visited Jewish families and supplied the with food and necessities. After the war, he applied for nationalized castles near Prague and where he cared for impoverished German, Jewish and Czech children. After the rise of the communist regime he had to flee the country; first he worked in West Germany, where he provided pastoral and social support to refugees in the Valka camp in Nuremberg, later he lived in Switzerland. Pitter was named Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli government; in 1973 he was awarded The Order of Merit Ist Class of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1991 President Václav Havel conferred upon him the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, in memorian. Inv BX1