Maria Stromberger
Maria Stromberger (16 March 1898 – 18 May 1957) was an Austrian nurse who is best known for supporting the inmates and their resistance movement in Auschwitz, resistance movement at the Auschwitz concentration camp during The Holocaust. After training as a nurse in the late 1930s, she learned of the mistreatment of Jewish people and others in Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), Nazi-occupied Poland. Wishing to help the persecuted, she requested a transfer to Poland. After meeting former inmates of Auschwitz, she took a position as the camp's head nurse for (SS) officers to assist the inmates. After gaining the trust of the inmates, the Auschwitz Combat Group recruited her for resistance activities. For two and a half years, Stromberger smuggled food, medicine, weapons, and information to Auschwitz inmates and delivered information about the camp and its prisoners to the public. Her kind demeanour toward the inmates raised suspicions among SS guards, but her supervisor Eduard ...
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Metnitz
Metnitz () is a town in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Geography Metnitz lies in the north of Carinthia and includes most of the Metnitz valley and the surrounding Gurktal Alps The Gurktal Alps (, ) is a mountain range in the Central Eastern Alps in Austria which is named after the valley of the Gurk river. The range stretches west to Lake Millstatt and east to Neumarkter Sattel (north-northwest of Neumarkt in Steie .... References Cities and towns in Sankt Veit an der Glan District {{Carinthia-geo-stub ...
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