She and her husband Kurt Lingens M.D., with Baron Karl von Motesiczky, harbored multiple Jews in their home during the Second World War.

During the Austrian Civil War and the Social Democratic Party falling to the Austro-fascist state, Ella Lingens joined a circle of resistance fighters formed around Otto and Käthe Leichter.

[2] She worked in a legal advice centre run by the Social Democratic Party in Vienna, having been a member of their local branch executive.

[1] In 1939, the Lingenses met Baron Karl von Motesiczky, an anti-Nazi who had studied medicine at the University of Vienna.

When she came down with a gastrointestinal infection, the Lingenses’ housekeeper gave Felden her identity card so she could undergo medical treatment under an assumed name.

In 1942, Alex Weissberg-Cybulski, a Jewish acquaintance who was hiding in Krakow, requested that the Lingenses help him and some friends reach Hungary.

The Lingenses asked a connection, Rudolf Klinger, to assist them, and he offered to accompany Weissberg-Cybulski and his friends to the border.

[5] In August 1942, Weissberg-Cybulski sent two Jewish couples to Vienna, the brothers Bernhard and Jakob Goldstein and their wives Helene and Pepi.

It also happened that they found a letter from Jewish friends who lived in the United States who were trying to get news about people whom they had left behind.

[5] She described in her memoir, Prisoners of Fear:"We would hide women somewhere in the hut–the S.S. would order the names to be called out from the index cards in the hospital file.

[7] She spent much of her free time informing the public of the horrors of National Socialism and of her death camp experiences.

[8] She published a memoir of her time imprisoned, titled Prisoners of Fear, in 1948, which described many of the horrors of the camps and the small moments of humanity she found there.

While each conversation fell silent, she repeated a single sentence, her eyes wide in fear: You won't burn me?