Marianne Golz née Belokostolsky

born in Vienna on January 30, 1895 – died in Prague on October 8, 1943
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Marianne Belokostolsky (married name Golz) as the dancer Cagliari in the operetta “Wiener Blut”, Stuttgart, 1922.

The actor and opera singer Marianne Golz lived in Prague with her husband Hans from 1933. The city was occupied by German troops in March 1939. Hans Golz was Jewish, and thus at risk during the subsequent National Socialist persecution. He fled to England in the summer of 1939. Marianne Golz did not manage to follow him before the borders were closed that September.
In 1940 she made contact to Ottokar Zapotecky and his Prague resistance group, who helped Czech Jews to escape abroad. Marianne Golz helped the Jewish bank employee Viktor Kühnel to flee the city. Before he left, he gave Marianne Golz money because it was too risky to take it with him. Golz sent regular payments to him out of the money.
Marianne Golz was betrayed in November 1942. The escape network’s members were then arrested and imprisoned. Marianne Golz was sentenced to death and murdered by guillotine in 1943.
She was honored posthumously by the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Center Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations in 1988.

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