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Austrian Righteous Among The Nations
This is a list of Austria, Austrian Righteous Among the Nations. , 109 Austrians have been honored with this title by Yad Vashem for saving Jews during World War II. List *Christa Beran , Beran, Christa *Maria Böhm, Boehm, Maria *Oswald Bosko, Bosko, Oswald *Wanda Bottesi, Bottesi, Wanda *Friedericke Buchegger, Buchegger, Friederike *Anton Dietz, Dietz, Anton *Reinhold Duschka, Duschka, Reinhold *Anna Ehn, Ehn, Anna *Anna Friessnegg, Friessnegg, Anna and Ludwig *Charlotte Fritz, Fritz, Charlotte *Karl Gröger, Gröger, Karl B. *Anna-Maria Haas, Haas, Anna-Maria *Irene Harand, Harand, Irene *Edith Hauer, Hauer, Edith (Frischmuth) *Ewald Kleisinger, Kleisinger, Dr. Ewald and Danuta Kleisinger, Danuta *Ludwig and Maria Knapp, Knapp, Ludwig and Maria *Otto Kuttelwascher, Kuttelwascher, Otto and Mina *Arthur Lanc, Lanc, Dr. Artur and Maria Lanc, Maria *Hermann Langbein, Langbein, Hermann *Gisela Legath, Legath, Gisela; children Frieda and Martin *Franz Leitner (politician), Leitner, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city and state. Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has Austrians, a population of around 9 million. The area of today's Austria has been inhabited since at least the Paleolithic, Paleolithic period. Around 400 BC, it was inhabited by the Celts and then annexed by the Roman Empire, Romans in the late 1st century BC. Christianization in the region began in the 4th and 5th centuries, during the late Western Roman Empire, Roman period, followed by the arrival of numerous Germanic tribes during the Migration Period. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Hauer
Edith Hauer-Frischmuth (1913 in Vienna – 2004 in Altaussee) was an Austrian woman, named one of the Righteous Among the Nations. She saved her Jewish friend, Monika Taylor, from being arrested by the Gestapo in 1942. In the Austrian resistance she supplied Jews with fake documents and helped them to get out of the country. At the end of the war she also worked for the British Army, for which she received an award. External links Edith Hauer– her activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust, at Yad Vashem Yad Vashem (; ) is Israel's official memorial institution to the victims of Holocaust, the Holocaust known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (). It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; echoing the stories of the ... websiteIsrael honors 2 Austrians(Edith Hauer and Franz Leitner) *German* 1913 births 2004 deaths Austrian Righteous Among the Nations People from Vienna Austrian resistance members Female resistance members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Motesiczky
Karl Wolfgang Franz Count Motesiczky (born 25 May 1904, in Vienna; d. 25 June 1943) was an Austrian student of medicine and psychoanalysis and an active opponent of Nazism. After the German annexation of Austria, Motesiczky used his manor in Hinterbrühl to shelter Jews and other persecuted persons. He was arrested by the Gestapo on October 13, 1942, for helping Jews to flee to Switzerland. Following his deportation he perished in Auschwitz concentration camp. Posthumously, he was honoured as a Righteous Among the Nations. Early life Karl Motesiczky is descended from a wealthy Viennese aristocratic family. The family had a huge manor in Hinterbrühl at the Kröpfelsteig. His father, the Hungarian Edmund von Motesiczky de Kesselökeö, was a chemist who died in 1909. His mother, Baroness Henriette von Motesiczky, born von Lieben, left the care of her children to nannies, governesses and other staff but she made sure that Karl was brought up to a democratic point of view. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Madritsch
Julius Madritsch (4 August 1906 – 11 June 1984) was a Viennese Austrian businessman who helped to save the lives of Jews during the Holocaust. Biography In the spring of 1940 Madritsch came to Kraków to avoid enlistment in the German ''Wehrmacht''. Being a trained draper, he was appointed trustee of two Jewish confectionery stores, Hogo and Strassberg. Madritsch soon learned that he could make more money by manufacturing textiles. At the end of 1940 Madritsch was able to open a sewing factory in Kraków that employed about 800 Jews and Poles with 300 sewing machines. Similar to Oskar Schindler, Madritsch gained a reputation as a good man who treated his Jewish workers well; he was "wonderful to his Jews". In Kraków, Madritsch saved the lives of thousands of Jews and also sought to make their lives more bearable. He employed many workers with no professional experience or training. Together with his factory manager Raimund Titsch, he provided humane and comfortable wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erwin Lutz
Erwin Lutz is an Austrian "Righteous Among the Nations". In 1944 the police officer Erwin Lutz was working as a chef in a prison in Innsbruck. Together with police inspector Rudi Moser he decided to save five Jewish Polish girls from deportation into a concentration camp. He convinced his bosses in the prison administration to remove the girls' papers from the files and to give them jobs in his prison kitchen. When orders came to transport all prisoners to KZ-Bergen-Belsen on January 18, 1945 they organized the escape of the five girls. Two of them managed to flee. Erwin Lutz offered them his apartment in Ahorndorfstraße 3 as first shelter. External links Dokumentation about Austrian Righteous Among the Nations – his activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust, at Yad Vashem Yad Vashem (; ) is Israel's official memorial institution to the victims of Holocaust, the Holocaust known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (). It is dedicated to preserving the memory of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balthasar Linsinger
Balthasar Linsinger (1902 – 19 October 1986) was an Austrian priest. Life Linsinger was born in 1902 in Sankt Veit im Pongau. He was a pastor in Großarl and offered a History of the Jews in Austria, Jewish family from the city Salzburg to come to Großarl in the case of danger. In 1944 when a deportation was imminent, the family immersed to his home. Linsinger impersonated the family as a family which lost their home in Vienna, because of the bombing war. No denunciation happened and the family survived the era of National Socialism. On 13 April 2011, Linsinger was added to the list of Righteous Among the Nations. The tribute was initiated by the Viennese journalist Angelica Bäumer. She was one of three children of the Jewish artist Eduard Bäumer, who Linsinger accommodated in the presbytery including his wife and the three children at the ages of three, nine and twelve. Linsinger was ordained a priest in 1925. The stages of his priestly life as a pastor were: Weißbach be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
