Ludwig and Maria Knapp

Ludwig Knapp and his wife Maria owned a sawmill and a farm in Weitra near Gmünd in Lower Austria in 1944 . They took good care of Jewish slave laborers and saved them from deportation to Theresienstadt .

On April 28, 1968, the couple was awarded the honorary title “ Righteous Among the Nations ”.

Web links

• The Righteous of Austria (article on p. 44)
• "The forgotten helpers" on ORF 1 , August 9, 2006

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations: Germans and Austrians, Volume 1, page 322
2. ↑ Ludwig and Maria Knapp on the website of Yad Vashem (English)

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