Anna Friessnegg

Banner during the 2011 Allee der Gerechten in Vienna, which deals with the events under the name of her husband for which both Anna Friesnegg and her husband Ludwig received the title "Righteous Among the Nations"

The Viennese Anna Friessnegg (* 1899, † 1965) has partnered with her husband Ludwig used during the Nazi dictatorship for persecuted Jews. Since 1984 she has been an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations .

Anna Friessnegg and her husband were the parents of the helpers Anna Manzer and Edi Stecher . In 1944, they helped the Hungarian Jew Melvine Deutsch, looked after her and hid her in her apartment when there was a threat of being discovered by the Gestapo and deported .

German was previously in a forced labor camp of the company Siemens in Floridsdorf, Vienna . When she was deported from the camp in a transport to the Mauthausen concentration camp , she fled the train on the way and came to Vienna, where she did not know anyone. In her desperate situation, she turned to Manzer, who had been unknown to her.

The Gestapo did not give up the search for the Germans who had fled from the transport to Mauthausen . When danger threatened her in Manzer's apartment, Manzer turned to her brother Stecher. Deutsch stayed with Stecher for a few months without being discovered by the Gestapo.

However, Manzer and Stecher did not have enough rationed food. Her parents then jumped in and provided the hidden German with food. Often, Deutsch had to be brought to Friessnegg's apartment when the Gestapo was looking for Jews in the area. After the liberation, Deutsch was able to leave her apartment safely.

Her husband, Ludwig Friessnegg, as well as Anna Manzer and Edi Stecher are also Austrian Righteous Among the Nations .

Web links

• The righteous of Austria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anna Friessnegg on the website of Yad Vashem (English)