Arthur Lanc (20 March 1907, in

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, Austria – 20 May 1995, in Gmuend, Lower Austria) was medical officer in Gmünd and responsible for the medical care for all Jewish forced laborers in the area of Gmünd. Administering medicine to these people was not allowed. Together with the veterinarian, Dr. Krisch, he set aside medicine for the Jewish forced laborers and helped three of them flee from a camp in Gmünd. Because of this medical care, the Jews managed to survive the NS-Terror in a hideout in the attic of the tannery Weißensteiner in Hoheneich. For that reason Lanc was honored by Yad Vashem by getting the honorary title

Righteous among the Nations Righteous Among the Nations ( he, חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, ; "righteous (plural) of the world's nations") is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to sa ...

together with his wife

Maria Lanc Maria Lanc (born Maria Jenewein; 1911 – 15 November 1995) was an Austrian humanitarian. She lived in Gmünd, Lower Austria with her husband Arthur Lanc, a medical officer, in 1944. He and his wife owned the house number 35 in Kirchengasse ...

Literature

* Erich Geppert, Karl Pichler: 800 Jahre Heidenreichstein, Waldviertel – Kultur und Geschichte. *

Israel Gutman Israel Gutman ( he, ישראל גוטמן; 20 May 1923 – 1 October 2013) was a Polish-born Israeli historian and a survivor of the Holocaust. Biography Israel (Yisrael) Gutman was born in Warsaw, Second Polish Republic. After participati ...

, Daniel Fraenkel,

Jacob Borut Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jac ...

: Lexikon der Gerechten unter den Völkern: Deutsche und Österreicher, page 324 f. Wallstein Verlag, 2005 * Mosche Meisels: Die Gerechten Österreichs – Eine Dokumentation der Menschlichkeit. Published by the Austrian embassy in Tel Aviv. 1996, pages 48–49. * Herbert Fritz, Peter Krause: Farben tragen – Farbe bekennen, 1938–1945, Katholische Korporierte in Widerstand und Verfolgung, pages 402–404. Published by Österr. Verein für Studentengeschichte, 2013

External links

ÖCV: Arthur Lanc

Documentary about the Austrian Righteous among the Nations

– his activity to save Jews' lives during the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ...

, at

Yad Vashem Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...

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