Blindes Vertrauen

(in German)

Since March 2026, a memorial stele located not far from the main train station has honored Otto Weidt (1883–1947), a “Righteous Among the Nations,” who joined the anarchist movement as a young man, wrote poetry himself, and was a regular visitor to the Romanisches Café. In 1939, Otto Weidt first established a workshop for the blind in Kreuzberg, where he employed almost exclusively Jewish people with visual and hearing impairments.

With great courage, Weidt—who was nearly blind himself—supported and hid persecuted Jews. He forged papers, bribed the Gestapo, and was once able to bring his staff—who had already been slated for deportation—back from a transit camp to his brush workshop, now located at Rosenthaler Straße 39, which was deemed essential to the war effort.

Inge Deutschkron, who worked at the workshop for the blind, was particularly committed to preserving the memory of the radical nature of his resistance. To ensure that the memory of this extraordinary man, so rich in moral courage and creativity, does not fade, the site is now a memorial.