Righteous Among The Nations

Righteous Among The Nations                                                                                                                                                                                                                    By: Sinagoga                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Roman Erich Petsche was born in 1907 in Kočevje in a family of Kočevje Germans. After the First World War, the family emigrated to Austria. Petsche was awarded the title of “magister artium” at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, and later taught art and technical education for many years. In 1944, he was stationed in Novi Sad as a Wehrmacht soldier, where one of the most important stories of his life took place: he saved Jewish girls Eva and Mira Tibor from the Holocaust, and in 1982 Yad Vashem awarded him the Righteous Among the Nations award for this courageous act.