Emilie Hofer
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Now I want to be on the front line in Poland and shoot firmly, but not forwards, but backwards at a specific person.
The enemy is not at the front, but at the back.
He shouldn't get Gdansk as cheaply as he [note: Adolf Hitler] got Austria and Czechoslovakia.
The two nurses denounce Emilie Hofer to the Gestapo. On September 6, 1939, she is arrested and charged with 'offenses under the Treachery Act'. In a trial before the Special Court in Vienna on May 18, 1940, she was sentenced to one year in prison. She was released on September 5, 1941.
After the Gestapo deemed the sentence too lenient, she was arrested on October 7, 1941. A poem with legitimist content was found during a house search. She was also suspected of "having defamed the NSDAP by sticking out her tongue at a fellow party member".
On 7 January 1942, however, the new proceedings against Emilie Hofer were dropped. She was finally released from prison on March 31, 1942.
After this, Emilie Hofer returned to work as a nurse and witnessed 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 Comradeship of the Politically Persecuted and Confessors for Austria. The well-known socialist resistance fighter Rosa Jochmann also knew Emilie Hofer from her imprisonment and vouched for her.
I was imprisoned several times with Sister Emilie Hofer, Vienna 6th, Linke Wienzeile 128, born 29.9.1903 in Graz, and among other things I can confirm her imprisonment from January 7, 1942 to the end of March 1942.
I am also aware from stories told by other camp comrades that Sister Hofer was detained at Morzinplatz for many months in 1940.
I would ask you to accommodate comrade Hofer in any way you can.
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Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv (WStLA)
Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstands (DÖW)
Friedhöfe Wien - Verstorbenensuche
