A Christian widow, identified only as Elizabeth “B”, has been denied pension rights because she aided starving Austrian Jews during the Nazi regime. Mrs. B. is the widow of a former Austrian civil servant.
In 1944 Mrs. B. was sentenced to serve a year in prison by a Nazi court here for smuggling food into a home for Jewish aged in Vienna. The Vienna Jewish Community has provided a modest financial grant for her. Despite repeated protests, the Austrian Pension Office, citing Mrs. B.’s jail term, has refused to reconsider its decision.
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