Maria Rosa Theresia Pfeiffer (geb. Jellinek)

Maria Rosa Theresia Jellinek was born in Vienna-Meidling, the daughter of the servant Josef Jellinek and Maria, née Strobl.

Nothing is known about her childhood and youth. In the 1940s, she lived in Watzendorf near Sitzenberg-Reidling and worked as a servant. Through Theobald Weber CanReg, she gets to know the resistance group Österreichische Freiheitsfront/Gruppe Moosbierbaum and joins it.

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

In Austria, which had been liberated from the Nazis, Maria Jellinek worked as a waitress again. In 1947, she marries the construction worker Johann Pfeiffer and joins the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich. She then takes care of the household. The couple moved to St. Pölten.

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