Dorothea Neff

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Dorothea Neff (February 21, 1903–1986) was a Vienna stage actress during the 1930s. Neff helped hide her Jewish friend Lilli Schiff after she received resettlement orders from the Nazis. Neff wrote a fake suicide note and left it at Schiff's previous residence, then took Schiff in to live with her.

She later moved from the stage to the cinema, acting up until her death in 1986.

In 1979, Dorothea Neff was awarded to the list of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in recognition of the risk to her own life, in hiding a Jew during the Holocaust.