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Přemysl Pitter: The man who saved children's lives in the face of war and hatred

The biography of Přemysl Pitter tells the story of a Czech Protestant thinker, radical pacifist, and charitable and social worker who spent most of his life at odds with the defining historical currents of the last century. During the Nazi occupation, he helped Jewish children, and between 1945 and 1947, during the "Castles" initiative, he organised humanitarian aid for more than 800 Jewish, Czech, and German children, saving them from concentration or internment camps. Forced into exile after 1951, he spent ten years working at the Valka refugee camp near Nuremberg. His life, filled with remarkable deeds, deserves attention for the inner sincerity with which Pitter constantly searched for a faith that would allow one to live a life that is both genuinely true to oneself and beneficial to others.