Dorothea Neff (21 February 1903 – 27 July 1986) was a Vienna stage actress during the 1930s.
Neff helped hide her Jewish friend Lilli Wolff, after she received resettlement orders from the Nazis to leave Vienna.
[1] To confuse the Gestapo, Neff wrote a suicide note and signed it 'Lilli' and left it in her apartment.
Driessen and Schmidt were honored in Yad Vashem in Israel as Righteous Among the Nations.
In 1979, Dorothea Neff was awarded to the list of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in recognition of the risk to her own life, in hiding a Jew during the Holocaust.