Biographies

Two polish brothers were believed to have organised a huge resistance movement in Innsbruck. Both were killed in the Dachau concentration camp

The Turteltaub family grandparents were deported and murdered with their granddaughter Gita

A English teacher and resistance fighter who was shot securing the Landhaus in Innsbruck on the last day of the war.

born Jan 1st 1894
in Göfis (Vorarlberg)
died Nov 13th 1944
in Halle an der Saale (Sachsen-Anhalt)

Jehovah’s Witnesses did not match Nazi ideology and refused all military duty. The Nazis persecuted them as domestic enemies.

A catholic man who would not accept Hitler's tyranny and spoke out about it. He died in Flossenbürg concentration camp

A woman with mental health issues was killed by the Nazis in the so-called euthanasia program.

Nikolaus Federspiel was supporting his grandson in his attempts to desert from Hitler's army and was killed by prison guards.

Amalie Turteltaub was the center of her family and took care of her children and grandchildren

Gita Scharf could not join her brothers Erich and Poldi on their escape to Palestine and was killed with her grandparents.

Franziska Schwingshackl helped women with abortions which could lead to the death penalty. She was executed in Munich.