FILE -A light illuminates names at the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial during the inauguration ceremony, in Vienna, Austria, Nov. 9, 2021. Vienna born Holocaust survivor Gertrude Pressburger, who became famous during the 2016 presidential campaign in Austria with a video message in which as "Mrs. Gertrude" she warned of hatred and exclusion triggered by the far right, has died at age 94.
Pressburger died Friday after a long illness, her family told the Austrian press agency APA on Saturday. In 1944, the family was captured and deported to the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp in Germany-occupied Poland, where her mother and two younger brothers were murdered. Her father was also killed by the Nazis.Pressburger returned to Vienna after the war, but initially did not talk about her horrific sufferings during the Holocaust. Eventually, she decided to open up about the Holocaust and about the antisemitic experiences she suffered in post-war Austria.
In 2016, Pressburger addressed Austria’s younger generation in an online video, warning against the humiliations and exclusion of minorities amid the far-right rhetoric in the country’s presidential election. She called on young Austrians to go out and vote. The video was watched and shared several million times.
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May you rest in well deserved peace.🙏🏻
She will get less attention than Betty White, sadly.
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