Maria Komocar (née Hasenauer, 1889–1941) was born in the Pinzgau region and raised five children largely on her own after her husband left for the United States. Under Nazi rule, authorities first tried to deport her to Yugoslavia, claiming she was “work-shy” and without income, but she temporarily avoided expulsion by proving she had worked. In 1939 she was committed to the Salzburg psychiatric institution, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and later held indefinitely. Although she insisted she was healthy and wanted to return home to work, she was transported on 21 May 1941 to the Hartheim killing centre near Linz. She was likely murdered there in late May or early June 1941 as a victim of Nazi “euthanasia.
