Oskar Huth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Oskar Huth

German piano maker

Date of Birth: 26-Feb-1918

Place of Birth: Berlin

Date of Death: 21-Aug-1991

Profession: piano maker, resistance fighter

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Oskar Huth (26 February 1918 – 21 August 1991) was many things: organ builder, graphic artist, a pianist with a rare gift for improvising in the style of the classical composers, a word smith and compelling teller of tales, a drinker and a noted bohemian who never really seemed comfortable if he had a permanent residence and who walked everywhere in his home city, Berlin, because he was passionately suspicious of public transport.
More than that, he became notable in Germany for resisting the inhumanity of the Nazi regime.During the war he got hold of a printing press which he installed in the cellar of a house vacated by a friend who had sought refuge from the bombing by moving to the Thuringian countryside after her husband was killed in the war.
Under the wartime conditions of the time, people who did not officially exist had no access to food rations.
By producing high quality forged identity documents and food coupons Oskar Huth enabled many people who, officially, did not exist (often because they were Jewish), to eat.