Edi Stecher

The Vienna Edi Stecher is a since 1984 Austrian Righteous Among the Nations . He received this award for giving shelter to the Jew Melvine Deutsch.

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 turned to Anna Manzer , who was 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, she turned to her brother Stecher. Deutsch stayed with Stecher for a few months without being discovered by the Gestapo.

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

Ludwig and Anna Friessnegg and his sister Manzer are also Austrian Righteous Among the Nations.

Web links

• Information on the award of the award on February 19, 1985 at doew.at ( Memento from February 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Edi Stecher on the website of Yad Vashem (English)