About the Author

Maria was born in 1907 in the then Austria-Hungary as the middle of three daughters. After the Great War, her home became part of the newly founded Czechoslovakia. In 1945, at the end of the World War II, she and her husband Ernst Gottfried Treben were victims of the Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. For several years they lived in refugee camps until they found refuge in Austria. She died in 1991.