Angelica Bäumer grew up in a wealthy artistic family in Salzburg. Her father Eduard Bäumer was a painter. Since her mother Valerie was classified “fully Jewish” in 1943, Angelica was classed as a “Mischling” (“half-breed”) although she was baptized as a Protestant. She was therefore no longer allowed to attend her academic high school. Angelica was taken out of class by two Gestapo officers and insulted by her classmates.
In 1942 Pastor Balthasar Linsinger had offered to shelter the Bäumer family in his parish house in Großarl if they were in danger. In the summer of 1944, Angelica, her mother, and her brother Michael fled to Großarl on a train crowded with refugees. Her younger sister Bettina was already there. They did not live in hiding, instead posing as a bombed-out family from Vienna. However, they had to get by without money or food ration cards. Twelve-year-old Angelica therefore worked on the property, sometimes performing heavy labor.
After the war, Angelica Bäumer was a Zionist for a short time. She helped look after children in Salzburg who had survived concentration camps. She did not pursue her plan to move to Palestine.