Luci Pollreis
Lucia " Luci " Pollreiss, even Lucia Pollreisz, was an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations.
Biographical
Pollreiss was a tailor and owned a small tailor in Vienna; in some sources it is referred to as Wiener businesswoman. In the sources there are different spellings of her name: Pollreis, Pollreiss or Pollreisz. She lived in Vienna in Rudolfsheim- house, in the 15th district of Vienna, in the Turnergasse 32 Pollreiss was married. Her husband was drafted during the Second World War the German army, and came only during leave from the front home.
In 1947, the Viennese song appeared Where our dear Vienna is today, it has the good Lord Phoebus in the Vienna music publisher in print. The music was by Karl Rieder, the text of Lucia Pollreisz - Mayrhofer. In 1949, a collection of poems by joy and sorrow was published in the storm of time in the European publishing house in Vienna. As an author operates Lucia Pollreisz - Mayrhofer.
An identity of the author with Pollreiss could previously not be proven with complete certainty. However, the agreement is probably due to several biographical and geographical aspects.
Deliverance
Pollreiss hidden from 1942 two Jews and a Jew in their apartment in Vienna, in the rooms of her tailoring and their country house in Ramsau in grove box.
These were to the Jewish tailor Max Arnold to his wife Johanna Arnold and the sister of Max Arnold, Leopoldine star. Max Arnold lived in Tree Press in Vienna, in Lower Austria. After the Anschluss he was subjected to repression and harassment from 1938 in his home town. In the summer of 1942 to move to Vienna Max Arnold of the Gestapo and the local registration authority instructed by pressing tree. He had to leave the job, to report to the Jewish Community Vienna and register there. Although Arnold moved to Vienna, but did not register. In Vienna he met his future wife Johanna know; both married in 1942 in Vienna. He was arrested on suspicion of racial disgrace and spent in the Vienna Court II; there he was jailed six weeks. After his release, he went into hiding in Vienna.
Max and Johanna Arnold made contact with Pollreiss. Pollreiss agreed to Max Arnold to employ in their tailoring and to be also help them find a hiding place. From 1942, the couple Arnold and Leopoldine star in the apartment of Maria Schauer, a friend of Pollreiss, in Vienna hidden. This was, however, to April only in the months of September; in the summer months Schauer had a visit from a well-known national socialist, so the couple Arnold and Leopoldine star could not stay in chill apartment.
Schauer took then contact Pollreiss whether it was prepared for the summer months to provide during a hiding place for the persecuted. Pollreiss immediately gave a positive response. She is quoted as saying: "I was and am always on the side of the weak ." Pollreiss granted the persecuted accommodation; she shared food and clothing with them. They also supported them financially. There were regular surveys and searches by the Gestapo, who were searching after the disappeared. Often Pollreiss had to get out of her apartment in the tailoring room, in her country house or girlfriends those persecuted during the night.
Pollreiss did not receive any payment or financial contribution for their help. During the period of National Socialism, endangered by their assistance. She was aware of the danger of their actions fully aware. Pollreiss ' man demanded of her that she stopped the aid to the Jews; his threats she brought not depend on its humanitarian action. According to another source knew and supported Pollreiss ' man their actions.
Max and Johanna Arnold and Leopoldine star survived the war thanks Pollreiss. They remained in Vienna. Thus, you'll join 150 Viennese Jews, the Holocaust, among other things through the help of Lucia Pollreisz survived.
On 8 July 1982, it was awarded jointly the title Righteous Among the Nations Luci Pollreiss and Maria showers of the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem.