Award
Righteous Among the Nations
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Ella Lingens
1908-11-18 – 2002-12-30
Life & Legacy
Ella Lingens-Reiner, M.D. (18 November 1908 – 30 December 2002) was an Austrian physician and is one of the Righteous Among Nations honored by Yad Vashem. She and her husband Kurt Lingens M.D., with Baron Karl von Motesiczky, harbored multiple Jews in their home during the Second World War. She was sent to Auschwitz by the Gestapo in 1942 and then later was imprisoned at Dachau. She survived the war and became president of the organization of former Auschwitz prisoners, Österreichische Lagergemeinschaft Auschwitz.
Occupation & Career
writer, resistance fighter, physician, jurist, psychoanalyst
Education
University of Vienna
Faith & Community
Protestantism
Accomplishments, Inventions & Publications
Righteous Among the Nations
Legacy Highlights
Honors & Awards
Righteous Among the Nations
Church
Protestantism
Education & Institutions
University of Vienna
Verified Legacy Record
Faith Community
Protestantism
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q94547 · wikidata
Family Child
Peter Michael Lingens
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q94547 · wikidata
Family Spouse
Kurt Lingens
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q94547 · wikidata
Sources & Provenance
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