Anna Ehn

The Viennese Anna Ehn (* 1931) is an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations.

It was one day on the way to the church of a 13 -year-old Jewish girl, Ilona Friedman addressed. Anna Ehn took pity on the hungry child and immediately offered cakes. She promised Ilona to give something every day to eat.

Ilona Friedman was transferred in 1944 with her family with a transport of Jews from Hungary to a camp in Vienna. As the allied bombing raids on Vienna became more frequent, one set for such attacks children from the camp to a clean-up in the streets and cemeteries. Ilona and the children of the camp were suffering from hunger. They went on the road passers-by, begging for money and food.

As the older sister Ilona was severely wounded in an air raid, and came into an SS hospital, they asked Anna Ehn, to save her sister from being deported to a death camp. Anna Ehn went to the hospital and asked the doctors to give her the girl to care for. When her it was granted, she led the sick girl into her home and nursed her for three months, until it was healthy again. So they saved her life.

She was honored as " Righteous Among the Nations " by the Yad Vashem Institute.