Maria Saidler
Maria “Mitzi” Saidler (born 1900 ; died 1994 ) was an Austrian housekeeper and cook and Righteous Among the Nations .
Life
The young widow Mitzi worked as a housekeeper and cook for the Jewish couple Camilla Paula Fleischner (1882–1944) and Hermann Fleischner (1881–1944) and their son Otto Fleischner (1914–2007) in Wattmanngasse 7/11 in Vienna since 1923 . Hermann Fleischner continued his father-in-law's en-gros button business, which operated under the name E. Goldmann at Kaiserstrasse 5.
After the German invasion , the Fleischners could soon no longer afford a housekeeper for financial reasons. Furthermore, according to the Nuremberg Laws, Mitzi was not allowed to live with Jews and had to find her own apartment. Nevertheless, she provided the Fleischners with food, took part in the housework without pay, and looked after the sick Ms. Fleischner. The son Otto was able to emigrate to Palestine in 1938 ; a friend of the family moved in for him, the Jewish widow Anna Sommer (née Schaffer). When a Nazi claimed the apartment, the Fleischners and other Jewish families were finally housed in Servitengasse. Mitzi also helped the family there.
When the order to "resettle" to Theresienstadt came in 1942, the Mitzi family was warned. Mitzi had meanwhile married and was now called Saidler. She offered the Fleischners to hide them in their apartment. The Fleischners refused and were deported to Theresienstadt on October 9, 1942. Saidler continued to supply the Fleischners with food parcels. On October 23, 1944, they were transported to Auschwitz and murdered there.
Instead of the Fleischners, Saidler kept Anna Sommer hidden in her apartment in Vienna at night until the end of the Nazi dictatorship and shared her rationed groceries with her. During the day, Sommer worked as a seamstress with a half-Jewish friend, thus ensuring her survival.
On May 31, 1978, Yad Vashem Maria Saidler presented the " Righteous Among the Nations " award . Otto Fleischner, who had meanwhile adopted the name Fleming, also traveled to this ceremony with his daughter.
literature
- The Righteous of Austria - A Documentation of Humanity. By Mosche Meisels, published by the Austrian Embassy in Tel Aviv, 1996 online
- Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations: Germans and Austrians, Volume 1, edited by Dāniyyêl Frenqel, Jacob Borut. Wallstein Verlag, 2005, p. 355, limited preview in the Google book search
Web links
- Dr. Otto Fleming , Hietzing Adult Education Center , autobiographical summary of Otto Fleischner / Fleming (PDF file)
- Maria Seidler: The Viennese cook who rescued a Jewish woman after her employer was deported , A Letter To The Stars
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Dr. Otto Fleming ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Hietzing Adult Education Center , autobiographical summary by Otto Fleischner, who took the name Fleming in England .
- ↑ Notes N53-55 , Peter Lowe Family History Research , ancestry.com
- ↑ Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations, Vol. 1, 2005, p. 355.
- ↑ Österreichische Gerechte , gerechte.at (Austrian Friends of Yad Vashem)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Saidler, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Saidler, Mitzi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Righteous Among the Nations |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1994 |