In 1945, during World War II she saved the life of two Jewish girls, from Poland – Lorraine Justman-Wisnicki and Miriam Fuks.
On January 18, 1945, an order arrived at the prison of Innsbruck which said that all occupants – among them also these two Jewish girls - should be moved to the KZ Bergen-Belsen.
Maria Stocker hosted Lorraine Justman-Wisnicki and Miriam Fuks, through the petition of the criminal investigation officer Rudolf Moser, in her apartment and hid them.
[1] Although that she was aware of the danger caused by hiding two Jewish refugees from the prison in her apartment, she still agreed immediately.
When the two girls arrived at her apartment, she hugged them with the words: "Thank God, that you are here, my beloved children."