Berlin – Gertrude Presberger, a Holocaust survivor who became famous in Austria’s 2016 presidential election, said, “Mrs. Gertrude, who was warned of the hatred and exclusion caused by the far right, died at the age of 94. Pressberger died on Friday after a long illness, her family spoke to the Austrian news agency APA on Saturday. Pressberger was born and raised in Vienna, the daughter of a carpenter. Her Jewish family converted to Catholicism in the early 1930s, but did not prevent her from being prosecuted by the Nazis after Austria was annexed to Germany in 1938. The APA reported...
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