Hermine-Jursa-Gasse

The street in the area of the former cattle slaughterhouse St. Marx was named on 5 March 2002 by the municipal council committee for culture after the resistance fighter and later education and women's affairs representative Hermine Nierlich-Jursa. The factory worker participated in resistance activities of an illegal communist group already during the Austrofascist period. Under the NS regime, she remained active in the resistance. She passed on messages between officials of the KPÖ, made her apartment available for secret meetings, and ensured the reproduction and distribution of illegal literature. During a wave of arrests in August 1939, the Gestapo also arrested her. In January 1942, she was sentenced to two and a half years in prison and sent to the concentration camp Ravensbrück. Even in the concentration camp, she remained resistant. She was involved in helping other prisoners to escape. She experienced the liberation and, after returning to Vienna, was again active for the KPÖ. She worked as an education and women's affairs representative in the Erdberg district group and later engaged in the peace movement. Her activities for the Ravensbrück camp community continued until her old age.