Luci Pollreis

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Lucia "Luci" Pollreiss , also Lucia Pollreisz , was an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations .

Biographical

Pollreiss was a tailor and owned a small tailor's shop in Vienna ; in some sources she is therefore referred to as a Viennese businesswoman. In the sources there are different spellings of her name: Pollreis , Pollreiss or Pollreisz . She lived in Vienna in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , in the 15th district of Vienna, at Turnergasse 32. Pollreiss was married. Her husband was drafted into the German armed forces during the Second World War and only came home while on leave from the front .

In 1947 the Viennese song Where our dear Vienna stands today was published by the dear Lord in the Viennese Phöbus music publishing house. The music came from Karl Rieder, the text from Lucia Pollreisz-Mayrhofer. In 1949 the volume of poems Von Freud und Leid im Sturm der Zeit was published by the European publishing house in Vienna . Lucia-Pollreisz-Mayrhofer is the author.

An identity of the author with Pollreiss could not yet be proven with complete certainty. However, the match is likely due to several biographical and geographical aspects.

Rescue act

From 1942, Pollreiss hid two Jews in her apartment in Vienna, in the rooms of her tailor shop and in her country house in Ramsau near Hainfeld .

These were the Jewish tailor Max Arnold, his wife Johanna Arnold and Max Arnold's sister, Leopoldine Stern. Max Arnold lived in Pressbaum near Vienna, in Lower Austria . After the annexation of Austria , he was subjected to reprisals and harassment in his home community from 1938. In the summer of 1942, Max Arnold was ordered by the Gestapo and the local registration office to move from Pressbaum to Vienna. He was instructed to report to the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien and to register there. Arnold moved to Vienna, but did not register. In Vienna he met his future wife Johanna; both married in Vienna in 1942. He was arrested on suspicion of racial disgrace and taken to the Regional Court Vienna II ; he was detained there for six weeks. After his release he went into hiding in Vienna.

Max and Johanna Arnold got in touch with Pollreiss. Pollreiss agreed to employ Max Arnold in their tailor shop and also to help them find a hiding place. From 1942 onwards, the Arnold and Leopoldine Stern couple hid in the apartment of Maria Schauer , a friend of Pollreiss, in Vienna. However, this was only ever possible in the months from September to April; In the summer months, Schauer had a visit from a well-known National Socialist , so that the couple Arnold and Leopoldine Stern could not stay in Schauer's apartment.

Schauer then contacted Pollreiss to see if she was ready to provide a hiding place for the persecuted during the summer months. Pollreiss immediately gave a positive answer. She is quoted as saying: "I was and am always on the side of the weaker". Pollreiss gave the persecuted shelter; she shared food and clothes with them. She also supported them financially. There were regular interviews and searches by the Gestapo looking for the disappeared. Pollreiss often had to take the persecuted from their apartment to the tailor's room, to their country house or to friends during the night.

Pollreiss received no payment or financial consideration for her help. In the time of National Socialism she endangered by her aid. She was fully aware of the danger of her actions. Pollreiss' husband asked her to stop helping the Jews; even his threats did not dissuade her from her humanitarian act. According to another source, Pollreiss' husband knew and supported her actions.

Max and Johanna Arnold and Leopoldine Stern survived the war thanks to Pollreiss. They stayed in Vienna. You are one of the 150 Viennese Jews who survived the Holocaust, partly with the help of Lucia Pollreisz.

On July 8, 1982, Luci Pollreiss and Maria Schauer were jointly awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem .

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  1. ↑ The spellings of the name are different in the sources. In Israel Gutman , Daniel Fraenkel, Jackob Borut (ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations - Germans and Austrians . Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2005; ISBN 3-89244-900-7 ; P. 347 f. her name is given as Lucia Pollreiss . In Mosche Meisels: The Righteous Austria - A Documentation of Humanity . Published by the Austrian Embassy in Tel Aviv, 1996, page 68, her name is given as Luci Pollreis . The Yad Vashem Memorial gives its name to Luci Pollreiss . Sources in printed form, especially books dealing with the help for Jews by Austrian nationals, consistently use the spelling Lucia Pollreisz .
  2. ↑ a b c Gestapo people in: Die Gerechten Österreichs - A Documentation of Humanity. By Mosche Meisels, published by the Austrian Embassy in Tel Aviv, 1996.
  3. ↑ Where our dear Vienna stands today, the dear Lord God has it; Wienerlied entry on Worldcat ; Retrieved August 25, 2013.
  4. ↑ DNB 575413239 From friend and sorrow in the storm of time: poems . Entry in the DNB ; Retrieved August 25, 2013.
  5. ↑ GND 126656029 Pollreisz-Mayerhofer, Lucia . Entry in the DNB ; Retrieved August 25, 2013.
  6. ↑ Luci Pollreis on the website of Yad Vashem (English)
personal data
SURNAME Pollreis, Luci
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pollreis, Lucia; Pollreiss, Lucia; Pollreisz, Lucia (alternative spellings)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Righteous Among the Nations
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century