Anna JUNG was born in Liefering bei Salzburg (annexed to the city of Salzburg in 1939) on June 27. 1886. She was the older of the two daughters of Anna und Georg Jung and was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church. Her father was a master tailor and homeowner in Liefering.
Anna JUNG’s father died in 1908 and her mother died in 1921. Anna was unmarried and hadn’t learned a skilled trade, so she worked as a kitchen maid in the city of Salzburg. Afterwards, she worked for a time in nursing, including at St. Anna Hospital (at 6 Grazer Bundesstraße, it’s now the St. Anna Health Center).
Documents indicate that Anna JUNG was admitted to the Salzburg »State Sanatorium for the Mentally Ill« on April 23, 1935. Her diagnosis there and her inability to work were decisive factors in her being murdered under Nazi rule.
Anna JUNG was one of the 85 patients who were deported from Salzburg to the Hartheim killing center near Linz on May 21, 1941, where they were all murdered. The death of the 54-year-old woman, like those of all of the victims of the secret Nazi »T4«1 program, was not noted in the Salzburg police registration files.
Her younger sister Maria survived the years of terror and died in Vienna in 1971.
The main perpetrators of the elimination killings in Salzburg were: Dr. Friedrich Rainer as Reich Governor, Dr. Oskar Hausner as head of the Gau Salzburg Welfare Office, Dr. Leo Wolfer as head of the State Sanatorium, and Dr. Heinrich Wolfer as head of the Hereditary Biology Department of the State Sanatorium (now the Christian Doppler Clinic).
Sources
- The National Archives Washington DC (War Crimes Records of the U.S. Judge Advocate Division Headquarters)
- Salzburg Archdiocese (birth and marriage registers)
- Salzburg city and state archives (police registration files and local citizenship register)
Translation: Stan Nadel
Stumbling Stone
Laid at Salzburg, Grazer Bundesstraße 6
