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 Mannheim (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (), is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, second-largest city in Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, the States of Ger ...

, 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 development and liturgy. She was deported to

Gurs internment camp Gurs internment camp (, ) was an internment camp and prisoner of war camp constructed in 1939 in Gurs, a site in southwestern France, not far from Pau. The camp was originally set up by the French government after the fall of Catalonia at t ...

by the Nazis in October 1940 and murdered in

Auschwitz Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschw ...

. Her letters from Nazi concentration camps were published in 1970.Maria Krehbiel-Darmstädter
in ''Deutsche Biographie'' (German Biography)

Bibliography

*''Briefe aus Gurs und Limonest, 1940–1943'' (published 1970)

References

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