Anna-Maria Haas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian Righteous Among the Nations
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Anna-Maria Haas
- Anna-Maria Haas (March 9, 1909 in Vienna – 1996 in Vienna) was a Viennese woman, who on May 3, 1982, was distinguished by Yad Vashem as Righteous among the nations. Haas helped the Jewish family Josef and Sidonie Rubin-Bittman and supported them over several years during the Second World War.
- She was married to Benno Haas, who, as a Jew, was persecuted in Nazi Germany. Haas lived in the 9th district in the neighborhood of the family Rubin-Bittman.
- She knew them and had contact with them.
- After the family Rubin-Bittman had left their flat in 1939 and had to live in disguise, Haas decided - as far as it was possible - to help Josef and Sidonie.
- They often had to change their hiding places.
- Haas persistently supplied them with free food. Sidonie was a relative of Martin Buber's coming from Lemberg.
- In 1944, Josef and Sidonie hid in a cellar space of a house.
- Here Sidonie bore her first son Fritz.
- That year he was the only Jewish child born in Vienna.
- Anna-Maria visited them often in their hiding place and brought them food, milk and baby food. Although he was made to live as a disguised under heavy and dangerous conditions, Josef tried to help Hungarian Jews who had already been selected by the Gestapo for a transport to an Extermination camp.
- He also began a relief operation for a Jewish child camp in Ferdinandstrasse in the 2nd district.
- Haas supplied him with food and medication for the child camp.
- Josef and Sidonie survived the war, and Josef became a successful businessman.
- Sidonie died in 1968 after long suffering.
- Josef died on April 25, 1972 at the age of 75. Anna-Maria Haas died in Vienna in 1996.
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