Anna Grigg
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Imprisonment 12.07.1943 - 16.03.1945
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Anna Grigg was born in Rassach near Stainz in Styria as the legitimate daughter of Franz Grigg and his wife Katharina, née Pieringer. Nothing has survived about her childhood and youth. Her parents probably died early, as she had a foster mother, Maria Herzog, in Lamperstätten in Styria.
She learned the tailoring trade and moved to Vienna. Her illegitimate son was born in 1913. She later works as a laborer in a book printing company. A devout Catholic, she was opposed to National Socialism.
Our state does not announce all the fallen, only the fallen Russians on the eastern front are announced. There was a woman living in Vienna who went to pray at 6 crosses; when she was praying at the 5th cross, an SA man approached her and asked her what she was doing; the woman replied that she was praying to God. The SA man replied that she should say Heil Hitler instead. The woman replied that she wanted to say Heil Hitler, but only when Hitler was hanging on the cross.
Obviously, Anna Herzog immediately denounced her mother-in-law's foster child, as Anna Grigg was taken into custody on the same day and subsequently transferred to Graz. In a trial before the special court in Graz on April 21, 1944, she was sentenced to one year in prison for 'homicide'. Anna Grigg is sent to the Stein prison near Krems an der Donau in Lower Austria and is released on 16 March 1945.
In Vienna, Anna Grigg witnesses the liberation of Austria and the re-establishment of the Republic in April and May 1945. She joins the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich and worked as a seamstress at home.
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Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv (WStLA)
Archiv ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich
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