Upstander Profile-Otto Wolf

Name: Otto Wolf

DOB: June 5^th, 1927

DOD (date of death): April 18^th, 1945

Age: 17

Otto Wolf was born on June 5^th, 1927 in Mohlenice, Czechoslovakia. He was the youngest of three children. He had an older brother named Kurt, who was killed as a soldier fighting against the Nazi’s. He also had an older sister, named Felicitas “Licka” in the diary. Otto received his diary as a birthday present on his fifteenth birthday. In his diary, Otto wrote about the places that the family hid, and how they strive to survive. Otto’s fate caught up with him, he was captured by the Nazis, then tortured (he refused to give up his name, and who assisted him) and was then shot with 18 other men, and then burned to death. He was only 17 years old. Fortunately, his sister, and parents survived the war and then, Felicitas; married a man named Otto Garda and donated her brother, Otto’s diary and photographs to the USHMM in 1995. Felicitas Garda died on June 6, 2006.