Maria Rosa Theresia Pfeiffer (geb. Jelinek)

Maria Rosa Theresia Jelinek was born in Vienna-Meidling, the daughter of Josef Jellinek, a servant, and Maria, née Strobl. Between 1909 and 1915, the family moved to Watzendorf near Sitzenberg-Reidling in Lower Austria, where her younger brother Josef Jelinek was born.

Nothing is known about her childhood and youth. In the 1940s, she worked as a waitress. Through Theobald Weber CanReg, she gets to know the resistance group Österreichische Freiheitsfront/Gruppe Moosbierbaum and joins it, as does her brother Josef Jelinek.

When the group was betrayed by informer Walter Ehart, the Gestapo arrested her on January 17, 1945. On February 16, 1945, she was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp. When the concentration camp was liberated by the US Army on May 5, 1945, she gained her freedom.

In Austria, which had been liberated from the Nazis, Maria Jellinek worked again as a waitress. She marries the construction worker Johann Pfeiffer in 1947 and joins the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP comradeship of the politically persecuted and confessors for Austria. She then takes care of the household. The couple moved to St. Pölten.

Maria Pfeiffer died in St. Pölten at the age of 84.