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Wanda Bottesi (1923 – 2008) was an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations. She was born in Innsbruck.[1] 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. Bottesi died in Innsbruck in 2008.[2] In November, a tree was planted in her memory in Jerusalem, Israel.[3]
References
- ↑ "Die Gerechten Österreichs" (in German). Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
- ↑ "Innsbruck Informiert". ISSU. April 2019. p. 57. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ↑ "Aus dem Schrecken auch Mut fassen". Tiroler Tageszeitung. 11 November 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
External links
- Wanda Bottesi – her activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust, at Yad Vashem website
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110609152631/http://www.gedenkdienst.org/deutsch/gerechte/inhalt.php (German)
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