Arthur Lanc
Arthur Lanc (born 1906 - d. unknown) was medical officer in Gmünd and responsible for the medical care for all Jewish forced laborers in the area of Gmünd. It wasn't allowed to administer medicine to these people. Together with the veterinarion, a Dr. Krisch, he set aside medicine for the Jewish forced laborers and helped three of them with fleeing from a camp in Gmünd. Because of this medical care, the Jews managed to survive the NS-Terror in a hideout in the attic of the tawery Weißensteiner in Hoheneich. For that reason Lanc was honored by Yad Vashem by getting the honorary title Righteous among the Nations together with his wife Maria Lanc.
Literature
- Erich Geppert, Karl Pichler: 800 Jahre Heidenreichstein, Waldviertel - Kultur und Geschichte.
- Israel Gutman, Daniel Fraenkel, Jacob Borut: Lexikon der Gerechten unter den Völkern: Deutsche und Österreicher, page 324 f. Wallstein Verlag, 2005
- Mosche Meisels: Die Gerechten Österreichs - Eine Dokumentation der Menschlichkeit. Published by the Austrian embassy in Tel Aviv. 1996, pages 48–49.
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