Bruha, Antonia (1915–)
Bruha, Antonia (1915–)
Austrian resistance leader. Born in Vienna, Austria, 1915, into a Czech-speaking working-class family; married.
Was in an anti-Nazi resistance cell with husband; arrested and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp (1941); emerged as an important organizer of a resistance organization that maintained prisoner morale, supplied them with drugs and additional food when they were ill, and warned them of particularly dangerous situations; survived and was liberated (1945); remained active in anti-Fascist educational work in Vienna.
See also memoirs Ich war keine Heldin (I Was Nota Heroine, 1984); and Women in World History.
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