User:Dschief001/Maria Steiner

Maria Steiner is Maria Steiner was an austrian honored righteous among the nations.

Maria Steiner lived in Vienna and in 1942 she housed the jewess Hedwig Mendelsohn within her house. Hedwig Mendelssohn, chased by the Gestapo, was in danger to get arrested and to be deported. She asked the nearby living Maria Steiner, which in no time said yes to shelter her. Hedwig's husband Dr. Leopold Mendelsohn emigrated to Argentinia in 1942, but because Hedwig had married him only in 1941 she wasn't able to get the neccessary emigrationpapers together with him. Therefore she stayed in Vienna alone. Her emigrationpapers came when she already was chased by the Gestapo.

Maria Steiner hid Hedwig Mendelsohn although the janitor and the Gestapo controlled her often.She hid her for 3 years until the end of the war in her house and by doing that safed Hedwigs life. After the war hedwig followed her husband to Argentinia.