Maria Fasching (Baden)

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Maria Fasching (* 1897 in Baden ; † 1945 ibid) hid the Jew Hans Posiles in her home from June 1942 and thus saved him from arrest and murder by the National Socialists . Shortly before the end of the war, the two died in an air raid.

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Maria Fasching was born in Baden near Vienna in 1897 , where she also lived in the 1930s. Through a friend she came into contact with her Jewish stepson Walter Posiles, a Czech citizen. He had fallen in love with the Austrian Edeltrud Becher before the war and had kept in contact with her even after the annexation of Austria and his flight to Prague . When Walter Posiles and his two brothers Ludwig and Hans were to be deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 , the siblings fled back to Vienna , where they initially stayed with Edeltrud Becher and her sister Charlotte . In order to cover up their escape, the brothers had previously left suicide messages so that they would not be wanted. The two sisters quartered the three brothers in an attic apartment of Charlotte's fiancé Friedrich Kunz. However, when Kunz, a soldier, went on home leave, the sisters were forced to relocate the brothers again and find a new hiding place for them.

Hans Posiles went to Baden, where he asked his stepmother and her son for help. This referred to her acquaintance, Maria Fasching, who agreed to take in Hans Posiles - initially only for a short time - in her apartment. She later agreed to hide Posiles for long periods of time. Like his brothers, Hans Posiles hid in Baden from June 1942 until the end of the Second World War - in separate accommodations. During his time in Baden, he regularly interrupted the flow of information from the National Socialists. When the Red Army was standing at the gates of Baden shortly before the end of the war, Hans Posiles and Maria Fasching went for a walk when they were victims of a bomb / air attack. While Posiles died immediately, Fasching survived the attack seriously injured and was taken to a hospital, where she subsequently succumbed to her serious injuries. Hans Posile's brother Walter married Edeltrud Becher after the war and continued to live with her in Austria; the marriage was divorced in 1962. On October 26, 1978 Maria Fasching was honored as Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem for the rescue of Posile .

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SURNAME Carnival, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Baden , Austria