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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. In the early summer of 1944 a carriage of 1700 Hungarian Jews which were sheltered in a grain silo, arrived in Gmünd. Arthur and Maria Lanc decided to help the inmates of the camp by all available means to alleviate their suffering. They collected clothes, food, medicine and baby linen. In the late autumn of 1944 an order was issued that in case that the frontline approaches the Jews should be transferred to a concentration camp in order to be killed. The date for the evacuation of the Jews was assigned for the end of March. Arthur Lanc hurried to the camp and decided to rescue three Jewish families - the family Fisch with three children aged five, four and one, the Yugoslavian nurse Piroska Blau and Georg Uhely, a lawyer from Öde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gmünd, Lower Austria
Gmünd () is a town in the northwestern Waldviertel region of Lower Austria and the capital of the Gmünd District, Gmünd district. The municipality consists of the Katastralgemeinden ''Böhmzeil'', ''Breitensee'', ''Eibenstein'', ''Gmünd'' and ''Grillenstein''. Situated on the Lužnice (river), Lainsitz (Lužnice) river where it forms the border with České Velenice in the Czech Republic, it is an important road and railway crossing point, next to the Blockheide-Gmünd Nature Park, Blockheide protected area. The development of the town, first mentioned in a 1208 deed, was decisively pushed by the inauguration of the Emperor Franz Joseph Railway from Vienna to Prague in 1869. By the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919), 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain its northern part Dolní Velenice, German: ''Unterwielands'', with the main station was awarded to Czechoslovakia, forming the new town of České Velenice. Politics Seats in the municipal assembly ''(Gemeinderat)'' as of 2010 elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |