Wanda Bottesi
Encyclopedia
Wanda Bottesi is an Austrian
Righteous Among the Nations
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In the summer of 1944 she rescued the Jews
Lorraine Justman-Visnicki and Mirjam Fuchs from the deportation to a concentration camp.
First she took the women to her apartment and hid them for a few weeks. A friend of her, police inspector Anton Dietz
, managed to fake documents which declared the women Christian
Poles
. This way Lorraine Justman-Visnicki and Mirjam Fuchs could survive the war, working as foreign workers.
Austrians
Austrians are a nation and ethnic group, consisting of the population of the Republic of Austria and its historical predecessor states who share a common Austrian culture and Austrian descent....
Righteous Among the Nations
Righteous Among the Nations
Righteous among the Nations of the world's nations"), also translated as Righteous Gentiles is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis....
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In the summer of 1944 she rescued the Jews
Jews
The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
Lorraine Justman-Visnicki and Mirjam Fuchs from the deportation to a concentration camp.
First she took the women to her apartment and hid them for a few weeks. A friend of her, police inspector Anton Dietz
Anton Dietz
Anton Dietz – who was born in Innsbruck – is an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations.On January 18, 1945 there was an order to bring all inmates of the prison of Innsbruck to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Five female Jews were planning to escape the prison. The two inspectors Karl Dickbauer...
, managed to fake documents which declared the women Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
Poles
Poles
thumb|right|180px|The state flag of [[Poland]] as used by Polish government and diplomatic authoritiesThe Polish people, or Poles , are a nation indigenous to Poland. They are united by the Polish language, which belongs to the historical Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages of Central Europe...
. This way Lorraine Justman-Visnicki and Mirjam Fuchs could survive the war, working as foreign workers.
Links
- http://www1.yadvashem.org/righteous_new/index.html
- http://www.gedenkdienst.org/deutsch/gerechte/inhalt.php (German)