Wanda Bottesi
Introduction '''Wanda Bottesi''' (1923 – 2008) was an Austrian Righteous Among the Nations. She was born in Innsbruck. In the summer of 1944 she rescued the Jews Lorraine Justman-Visnicki and Mirjam Fuchs from the deportation to a concentration camp. First she took the women to her apartment and hid them for a few weeks. A friend of her, police inspector Anton Dietz, managed to fake documents which declared the women Christian Poles. This way Lorraine Justman-Visnicki and Mirjam Fuchs could survive the war, working as foreign workers. Bottesi died in Innsbruck in 2008.In November, a tree was planted in her memory in Jerusalem, Israel.
References
External links *  Wanda Bottesi – her activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust, at Yad Vashem website* https://web.archive.org/web/20110609152631/http://www.gedenkdienst.org/deutsch/gerechte/inhalt.php (German)