Gertrude Pressburger died Friday after a long illness, her family told the Austrian press agency APA on Saturday.
A woman lights a candle in the Hall of Remembrance at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington,DC on April 8, 2013 as people mark Holocaust Remembrance Day in memory of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis and their collaborators during Worl WThe Holocaust survivor Gertrude Pressburger, who became famous during Austria’s 2016 presidential campaign with a video message in which "Mrs. Gertrude" warned of hatred and exclusion triggered by the far right, has died at 94.
Pressburger was born and raised in Vienna, the daughter of a carpenter. Her Jewish family converted to Catholicism in the early 1930s, but that did not keep them from being persecuted by the Nazis after Austria was annexed by Germany in 1938.After her father was arrested and tortured by the Nazis’ Gestapo secret police for alleged political activity, the family was able to escape to Yugoslavia and later to Italy, APA reported.
"I did not come back to Vienna to be oppressed again. I swear to myself that I will not put up with anything anymore. I’m going to fight with my mouth," APA quoted her as saying.
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