Eva von Sacher-Masoch

Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso
Born	Eva Hermine von Sacher-Masoch, Freiin Erisso 4 December 1911 Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died	22 May 1991
Spouse(s)	Major Robert Glynn Faithfull (1912–1998) (m. 1946, sep. 1952)
Children	Marianne Faithfull

Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso (1911–1991) was an Austrian , great-niece of utopian humanist author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836–1895) whose father Leopold Johann Nepomuk Ritter von Sacher ("Ritter" meaning knight, a title of nobility), combined his own with the von Masoch Slovak aristocratic title of his wife (last in that line) when his loyal services as Commissioner of the Imperial Police Forces in Lemberg (in present-day Ukraine) were rewarded with a new title, , by the Austrian Emperor.

Born Eva Hermine von Sacher-Masoch, Freiin Erisso she was the grand-niece of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, author of Venus in Furs, and was the mother of Marianne Faithfull. She was born in Budapest, when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her parents were Artur Wolfgang, Ritter von Sacher-Masoch (1875–1953) and his wife, Flora (Ziprisz). She was the sister of renowned novelist Alexander von Sacher-Masoch (1901–1972). Her mother was Jewish.

Sacher-Masoch spent her early childhood living on her family's estates near the town of Karánsebes in Transylvania (now Caransebeș, Romania), moving with her family to Vienna in 1918. As a young woman she moved to Berlin where she worked as a ballerina for the Max Reinhardt Company, and danced for productions of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. At the outbreak of World War II, Sacher-Masoch returned to her parents' home in Vienna and lived there for the duration of the war. Despite their Jewish ancestry, Sacher-Masoch and her mother were afforded a degree of protection from the Nazis due to Artur's World War I military record and his status as a well-regarded Austrian writer (under the pseudonym Michael Zorn).

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