Anna-Maria Haas

However, when Germany took control of Vienna in 1938, the young man fled the country for England where he joined the army to fight against the Axis powers.

After the family abandoned their flat in 1939 and gone underground to avoid deportation, they had to live in disguise, and they often had to change their hiding places.

Anna-Maria visited them often in their hiding places and brought them groceries, baby food and milk.

[1] Although Josef lived in disguise and worked under heavy and dangerous conditions, he tried to help Hungarian Jews who had already been selected by the Gestapo for deportation to an Extermination camp.

[1] On May 3, 1982, Yad Vashem posthumously recognized Haas as Righteous Among the Nations, which is recognition given to "non-Jews who took great risks to save Jews during the Holocaust.