Edith Hauer

Edith Hauer-Frischmuth (born 1913 in Vienna; died 2004 in Altaussee) was an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations.

She saved her Jewish friend, Monika Taylor, from being arrested by the Gestapo in 1942.

In the Austrian resistance she supplied Jews with fake documents and helped them to get out of the country.

At the end of the war she also worked for the British Army for what she got an award for her activity.

External links

Edith Hauer – her activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust, at Yad Vashem website
Israel honors 2 Austrians (Edith Hauer and Franz Leitner) *German*

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