Alice Licht (Berlin, 25/07/1916 - Israel, 01/01/1987)

Alice Licht (1916-1987) grows up in a comfortable middle-class family in the Berlin district of Tiergarten. She plans to study medicine, but by 1933 she is no longer allowed to take up her studies. She takes a training course as a secretary, which she completes in 1935. Later she works for the 'Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland. In spring 1941 she has t work as a forced laborer at ACETA AG, a parachute silk factory owned by IG Farben. By feigning a stomach ulcer she is able to obtain a discharge. Otto Weidt gives her a job in June 1941.

in February 1943 Otto Weidt hides Alice Licht and her parents, Käthe and Georg Licht, in a rented stockroom in the Berlin district of Mitte. When the Workshop for the Blind is betrayed as a refuge in October 1943, the Lichts are among those arrested by the Gestapo. They are deported to Theresienstadt Ghettp and six months later to Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.

When Otto Weidt hears of this, he goes to Auschwitz to offer his brushes for sale to the concentration camp administration. By this time Alice Licht is in Christianstadt, the subsiduary camp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Otto Weidt follows her there. He manages to send her a message via a Polish worker that he has left street clothes, money and medicines for her nearby the camp. Christianstadt camp is disbanded at the end of January 1945 in the face of the advancing Red Army, and Alice Licht succeeds in escaping. Alice Licht witnesses the end of the war in Otto Weidt's apartment in the Zehlendorf district of Berlin. She emigrates tot the USA in the summer of 1946.

On September 7, 1971, Yad Vashem decided to recognize Otto Weidt posthumously as Righteous Among the Nations.