Anna Strasser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anna Strasser

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1921

Place of Birth: St. Valentin, Lower Austria, Austria

Date of Death: 17-May-2010

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Anna Strasser (15 April 1921 – 17 May 2010) was an Austrian (and thereby, following the 1938 incorporation of Austria into Nazi Germany, German) resistance activist who helped forced labor and concentration camp victims until her arrest in 1944.
She emerged from her internment in successive concentration camps and prisons, followed by time in a labour camp, with her health badly damaged.
Over time she was helped to recovery by a doctor who, like her, was a surviving resistance activist.She later worked as a sales representative promoting Persil washing powder.
For several decades following the war she kept her Nazi-era activities to herself, but during the 1980s she began to tell her own story of those times.
In 1999 the municipal authorities at St.
Valentin, where she had repeatedly placed her life in danger in pursuit of her relief work during the National Socialist period, conferred "Ehrenbürgerschaft" on her (loosely, made her an "honoured citizen" in recognition of her work.