Monument to a silent hero in the Nazi era «kleinezeitung.at

A great hero, who never wanted to be one, puts Erich Hackl in his new hero For a great hero who never wanted to be one, Erich Hackl in his book "On the Rope" is a moving monument: the Jewish savior Reinhold Duschka.

6:00 am, July 28, 2018

[19659009] was his father's best friend at a time when men were still women's best friends and best friends half a century ago. This is how the new work of Erich Hackl begins, as a "hero story". But it is about a taciturn man who for a long time has a fame, an appreciation of strict rejection. In the opinion of having done only natural things, at a time when deportations, betrayals, kidnappings, shipments to concentration camps were on the agenda
For more than four years, taciturn and pbadionate mountaineer Reinhold Duschka The Jewish chemist Regina Steinig and his daughter Lucia Heilman in his studio at the Wiener Werkhof saved them from deportation.
Erich Hackl, who has developed a special and almost unique form of documentary narrative, has studied the history of this story. His most important informant was Lucia Heilman, now 88 years old. She was one of the contributors of the very important project Burgtheater "The Last Witnesses" in 2013 – on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the pogrom of November 1938.
Erich Hackl introduces the era of barbarism in the news no frills and wakes up again and again It seems to want to stay completely out of the story as the author, but the words and phrases give the impression that 39; they are all readily available, as the most important element of touching, oppressive, often elusive events. All fears of being betrayed or uncovered become ghostly – but that is pure and crazy reality.
There is, says Lucia Heilman in a pbadage, "a lot of books on the victims, including the authors but not on the rescuers". We know Oskar Schindler, we may still know Anton Schmid, but almost nobody knows the shower of Reinhold, who also lost in the post-war years hardly a word about his heroic act. In 2013, a commemorative plaque was placed on the facade of the workshop court and, in Israel, it was honored as one of the 88 "righteous among the nations" who risked their lives during the Nazi era to save others. He saved, thanks to Hackl, more: the belief in compbadion.