Anna Hammermann

Anna Hammermann (also known by the first name Anja ; born March 7, 1907 in Drohobytsch , Austria-Hungary , † November 1994 in Israel ) was a doctor and resistance fighter .

Life

Anna Hammermann's family fled Galicia to Vienna in 1914 . Her father worked in agriculture for two years, her mother made a living by sewing. Due to the family's financially difficult situation, Hammermann had to finance his school attendance through tutoring. In 1924 she joined the socialist middle school movement, two years later the Communist Party and was involved in women's and youth work as well as in the Communist student organization Kostufra . During the revolt in the Vienna Palace of Justice fire , she was arrested for the first time on July 15, 1927. A second time at the protest of the communists at the march of the Heimwehr and the Schutzbund in Wiener Neustadt on October 7, 1928. She financed her medical studies as a kindergarten teacher and nurse, followed by a doctorate in February 1933 at the University of Vienna .

In 1933 she emigrated to the Soviet Union and worked there as a pediatrician. Four years later, in December 1937, she went to Spain to support the fight against Franco's troops in the medical service of the Interbrigades . She worked there in hospitals in Murcia and from April 1938 in Mataró as a surgical doctor. There she met her future husband, the doctor and interbrigadist Michael Perilman. After the international volunteers were demobilized in September 1938, the hospital was closed and S'Agaró was the last station on the retreat to France . In early 1939 she found employment in a hospital in Perpignan . A short time later, in February 1939, she emigrated to England , where she was followed shortly after by Michael Perilman. There she worked for the Association of Austrian Doctors in Great Britain. After the liberation of Yugoslavia , she and her husband went to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , founded in 1945 . After Tito's break with the Soviet Union , she was subjected to reprisals there and was exiled to Montenegro. She finally emigrated to Haifa in 1951 .

literature

Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 1173.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d project biografiA at the Institute for Science and Art - Hammermann, Anna (Anja). Retrieved September 15, 2016 .
↑ ^a ^b Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 1173.
↑ Christine Schindler (Ed.): Yearbook of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance - Focus: Armed Resistance - Resistance in the Military . LIT Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-50010-6 , pp. 140 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hammermann, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hammermann, Anja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Doctor and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 7, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Drohobych , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	November 1994
Place of death	Israel

[bio2-1] project biografiA at the Institute for Science and Art - Hammermann, Anna (Anja). Retrieved September 15, 2016 .

[bio-2] Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 1173.

[3] Christine Schindler (Ed.): Yearbook of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance - Focus: Armed Resistance - Resistance in the Military . LIT Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-50010-6 , pp. 140 .