Gisela-Legath-Gasse

The farmer Gisela Legath lived in 1945 with her two children, the then fourteen-year-old Martin and the then thirteen-year-old Frieda, in Deutsch Ehrensdorf in South Burgenland. Legath's husband was a soldier in the Wehrmacht. In Burgenland, the NS regime forced 80,000 Hungarian Jews to work at that time. Two of these forced laborers were György Krausz from Szombathely and his friend Cundra (last name unknown), who were employed in a mill in Eberau. As the Red Army approached, the National Socialists drove the Jews on a death march to the concentration camp Mauthausen. Krausz and Cundra managed to escape. They were hidden by Gisela Legath in a grain silo. Together with her two children, she provided the two men with water and food. A few days later, the Wehrmacht set up a field kitchen on the Legath family's property directly next to the grain silo. When one of the soldiers discovered the hidden Jews, Legath convinced him not to report them and thus deport them, but rather to continue to employ them for work. In this way, Krausz could work as a cook and Cundra as a tailor until the Wehrmacht withdrew. On January 12, 1994, Gisela Legath was awarded, together with her two children Martin and Frieda, the title "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem.