Maria Darmstädter
Maria Darmstädter (22 June 1892 – 13 February 1943), also known under her married name Maria Krehbiel-Darmstädter, was a German religious scholar and Holocaust victim. Born to a prominent Jewish family from Mannheim, she was baptised in the Lutheran church as an adult and shortly after joined the newly established Christian Community in the early 1920s. She was one of the community's first and most influential members, and contributed greatly to its liturgy. She was deported to Gurs internment camp by the Nazis in October 1940 and murdered in Auschwitz. Her letters from Nazi concentration camps were published in 1970.[1][2][3]
Bibliography[]
- Briefe aus Gurs und Limonest, 1940–1943 (published 1970)
References[]
- ^ Peter Selg, From Gurs to Auschwitz: The Inner Journey of Maria Krehbiel-Darmstädter, Great Barrington, 2013
- ^ United States Holocaust Museum
- ^ Maria Krehbiel-Darmstädter in Deutsche Biographie (German Biography)
Categories:
- German scholars
- German Jews who died in the Holocaust
- German people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
- Converts to Lutheranism from Judaism
- 1892 births
- 1943 deaths
- Gurs internment camp survivors
- 20th-century Lutherans
- German academic biography stubs