Anna-Maria Haas

Anna-Maria Haas (March 9, 1909 in Vienna – 1996 in Vienna), was an Austrian woman, who on May 3, 1982, was distinguished by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations for protecting Jews during World War II.

Rescuer Anna-Maria Francl married Benno Haas in 1930 and lived in Vienna. He was of Jewish descent and came from a family of Jewish industrialists who had converted to Catholicism. However, when Germany took control of Vienna in 1938, the young man fled the country for England where he joined the army to fight against the Axis powers.

Anna-Maria, who was not Jewish, remained in Vienna and attracted unwanted attention from the Gestapo because of her husband's Jewish connections and role in the British army. Still, she decided she would help Jews in Vienna who were struggling to avoid discovery and deportation.