Ottokar Brzoza-Brzezina is recorded at Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations - one of the non-Jews who risked everything to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
The record lists Ottokar Brzoza-Brzezina as Polish officer (1883–1968).
Ottokar Brzoza-Brzezina was born at Protivín in 1883. His recorded nationality is Poland.
By occupation Ottokar Brzoza-Brzezina was military officer - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Rescue during the Holocaust was not a grand gesture but a sequence of small, repeatable risks taken over months or years.
Recognition: Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari and Righteous Among the Nations (2022).
Ottokar Brzoza-Brzezina died in 1968, aged 85. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari
- Righteous Among the Nations — 2022
- Worked as military officer
