Přemysl Pitter 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 Přemysl Pitter as Czech pacifist and educator.
Přemysl Pitter was born at Smíchov in 1895. His recorded nationality is Czechoslovakia. He was educated at Protestant Theological Faculty – Charles University.
By occupation Přemysl Pitter was pedagogue, esperantist and poet - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
The people honoured as Righteous Among the Nations were overwhelmingly ordinary; what distinguished them was that they acted while their neighbours did not.
Recognition: Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1973), Righteous Among the Nations (1964) and Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
Přemysl Pitter died in 1976, aged 81. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany — 1973
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1964
- Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
- Worked as pedagogue, Esperantist and poet
- Educated at Protestant Theological Faculty – Charles University
