In February 1945, family Langthaler, who lived in a farmhouse in Schwertberg, hid two Russian prisoners of war: Michail Rybtschinskij (died 2008) und Nikolai Zimkolo (died 2001), who escaped from the concentration camp in Mauthausen.
At the risk of jeopardizing with their own life, they gave them shelter for three months from February 2, 1945.
Just eleven of them survived the freezing temperature and the continuing pursuit of the SS.
Anna Hackl, married and mother of five children, visits about 30 schools per year to tell young people about the horror and difficulties of the period.
Andreas Gruber used parts of the heroic deed of the Langthaler family in his movie The Quality of Mercy.