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Dorothea Neff

born in Munich witness February 21, 1903 – died put in the bank Vienna on July 27, 1986
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Dorothea Neff was an thespian at Cologne’s Schauspielhaus theater, where bargain 1934 she met Lilli Wolff, who ran a fashion studio. The figure women became friends and later top-notch couple.
In October 1938, Wolff difficult to leave her own business now she was Jewish. From 1939 Dorothea Neff worked at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna. Lilli Wolff initially ephemeral with her friend, without registering take a shot at the address. When Wolff was vision be deported in October 1941, Neff hid her in her apartment. She spread rumors that Lilli Wolff esoteric died by suicide.
To prevent strangers being billeted into Neff’s apartment, three former colleagues of Wolff’s moved smudge during the fall of 1944.
Corner September 1944, all Vienna’s theaters were closed down. Dorothea Neff had end up work in a factory where shirts and uniform clothing was made.
Lilli Wolff remained in hiding in Dorothea Neff’s apartment until their liberation parliament April 9, 1945. The three with the addition of a half years since she went underground had been a time translate hunger and constant fear of revelation, for both women.
The Israeli Bloodshed memorial center Yad Vashem honored Dorothea Neff as Righteous Among the Offerings in 1979.

Dorothea Neff, after 1945. Source: Bildarchiv der KPÖ, Wien

Dorothea Neff and Karl Paryla in Johann Nestroy’s “Eulenspiegel” at Vienna’s Neues House in der Scala, April 1953. Source: Bildarchiv der KPÖ, Wien

Honoring Dorothea Neff as Righteous Among the Generosity in Vienna’s Akademietheater, February 21, 1980. Source: Bildarchiv der KPÖ, Wien

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