Hilde Oelsinger

Hilde Ölsinger (* 1898 in Vienna † June 3, 1981 ibid) was an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations .

Ölsinger worked as a typist for the Vienna police. When Austria was annexed, Ölsinger was released from work, and towards the end of the war she was obliged to work for the post office. The strict Catholic, whose husband served in the Wehrmacht in the Second World War , accepted Cornelia Storfer and her husband in her apartment in September 1943 without accepting anything in return. Hilde Ölsinger hid the Jewish couple and obliged their children not to reveal anything about his stay in their house. Her husband knew that she was giving shelter to a Jewish couple in his apartment, but did not prevent them from doing so.

Hilde Ölsinger shared her ration cards with her protégés. She was obliged to work, but on days off she refrained from going into the air raid shelter in order to stay in the apartment with the Storfer family. During air raids, she reassured Mrs. Storfer and her husband: “God has sent you to us so that we can help you. He will not allow our house to be hit by bombs. "

Hilde Ölsinger kept the Storfer family in her apartment even after the Gestapo searched for Jews in the area. She hid the Storfer family until the end of the war and thus saved them from deportation to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and from certain death.

Hilde Ölsinger was buried in the Döblinger Friedhof (group 32, row 7, number 22).

Since September 2016, a memorial plaque on Leyserstraße 5 in Vienna has been commemorating Hilde Ölsinger.

Memorial plaque for Hilde Ölsinger

literature

• Daniel Fraenkel, Jakob Borut (ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations: Germans and Austrians . Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2005; ISBN 3-89244-900-7 ; P. 345 f ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Documentation about the righteous in Austria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Opferfürsorgeakt Cornelia Storfer Vienna City Archives InvNr. St-204/48 .