Career
Haas helped the Jewish family Josef and Sidonie Rubin-Bittman and supported them over several years during the Second World War. Haas lived in the 9th district in the neighborhood of the family Rubin-Bittman. She knew them and had contact with them.
After the family Rubin-Bittman had left their flat in 1939 and had to live in disguise, Haas decided - as far as it was possible - to help Josef and Sidonie.
They often had to change their hiding places. Haas persistently supplied them with free food.
Sidonie was a relative of Martin Buber"s coming from Lemberg. In 1944, Josef and Sidonie hid in a cellar space of a house.
That year he was the only Jewish child born in Vienna.
Anna-Maria visited them often in their hiding place and brought them food, milk and baby food. Although he was made to live as a disguised under heavy and dangerous conditions, Josef tried to help Hungarian Jews who had already been selected by the Gestapo for a transport to an Extermination camp. He also began a relief operation for a Jewish child camp in Ferdinandstrasse in the 2nd district.
Haas supplied him with food and medication for the child camp.
Josef and Sidonie survived the war, and Josef became a successful businessman. Sidonie died in 1968 after long suffering.
Josef died on April 25, 1972 at the age of 75. Anna-Maria Haas died in Vienna in 1996.
