Anna-Maria Haas

Who is Anna-Maria Haas?

Anna-Maria Haas was a Viennese woman, who on May 3, 1982, was distinguished by Yad Vashem as Righteous among the nations.

Haas helped the Jewish family Josef and Sidonie Rubin-Bittman and supported them over several years during the Second World War. She was married to Benno Haas, who, as a Jew, was persecuted in Nazi Germany. Haas lived in the 9th district in the neighborhood of the family Rubin-Bittman. She knew them and had contact with them. After the family Rubin-Bittman had left their flat in 1939 and had to live in disguise, Haas decided - as far as it was possible - to help Josef and Sidonie. They often had to change their hiding places. Haas persistently supplied them with free food. Sidonie was a relative of Martin Buber's coming from Lemberg. In 1944, Josef and Sidonie hid in a cellar space of a house. Here Sidonie bore her first son Fritz. That year he was the only Jewish child born in Vienna. Anna-Maria visited them often in their hiding place and brought them food, milk and baby food.