Lisamaria Meirowsky

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Lisamaria Meirowsky (born September 17, 1904 in Graudenz , † August 9, 1942 in Auschwitz ) was a German dermatologist and pediatrician .

Life

Lisamaria Meirowsky was the daughter of the dermatologist Emil Meirowsky , who opened a practice in Cologne-Lindenthal in 1908 . After graduating from high school in Cologne, she began studying medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1923 . In 1925 she went to Munich for two years to continue her medical studies. Back in Bonn, she completed her studies in 1929. She received her doctorate in 1933 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . The title of the dissertation in the field of dermatology was On the clinical picture of Erythema palmoplantare symmetricum hereditarium . After a long illness, she went to Rome in 1933, did her doctorate in the field of paediatrics and made the acquaintance of the Dominican Franziskus Maria Stratmann . She converted from Judaism to Catholicism on October 15, 1933 and took part in the Third Order of St. Dominikus gave the name Maria Magdalena Dominika .

In 1938, persecuted as a “ non-Aryan ” , she went to Utrecht in the Netherlands with the Dominican P. Stratmann . In October 1941 she went into hiding in the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Koningsoord near Tilburg , where she worked as a doctor and porter. On July 26, 1942, the Archbishop of Utrecht, Jan de Jong , had a pastoral letter read out against the actions of the Germans against the Jews. In response, on August 2, 1942 244 converted to Catholicism former Jews, among them Lisa Maria Meirowsky and sisters Edith and Rosa Stein, from the Gestapo arrested and probably in the Aug. 4, 1942 at the concentration camp Westerbork deported . From there they were taken to Auschwitz concentration camp on August 7, 1942 and murdered on August 9. She sent one last letter to her confessor, in which she accepted martyrdom as a granted grace from God.

Stumbling block for Lisamaria Meirowsky (March 2015)

Commemoration

The Catholic Church accepted Lisamaria Meirowsky as a witness of faith in the German martyrology of the 20th century . In May 2014, a stumbling stone was laid by students from a high school in Cologne in front of her last place of residence in Cologne-Lindenthal at Fürst-Pückler-Straße 42 .

publication

  • On the clinical picture of erythema palmoplantare symmetricum hereditarium , Springer, Berlin 1933

literature

  • Franziskus Stratmann: The death companion of Edith Stein: Lisamaria Meirowsky . Christian Present, 19, 1968
  • Helmut Moll (publisher on behalf of the German Bishops' Conference), witnesses for Christ. Das deutsche Martyrologium des 20. Jahrhundert , Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th revised and updated edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , Volume I, pp. 385–388.
  • Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
  • Elisabeth Prégardier, Anne Mohr (ed.): Passion in August - Edith Stein and companions: Path in death and resurrection. Plöger Verlag, Annweiler 1995, ISBN 978-3-898-57067-1 .
  • PWFM Hamans: Edith Stein and Companions: On the Way to Auschwitz . Ignatius Press, 2010, pp. 181-194.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Seidler: Jewish pediatricians: victims of persecution 1933-1945 . Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, 2007, p. 311.
  2. ↑ PWFM Hamans: Edith Stein and Companions: On the Way to Auschwitz . Ignatius Press, 2010, p. 182ff.
  3. ↑ a b domradio.de: Victims of Nazi terror: Lisamaria Meirowsky , August 9, 2014, accessed on January 6, 2015.
  4. ↑ PWFM Hamans: Edith Stein and Companions: On the Way to Auschwitz . Ignatius Press, 2010, p. 184.
  5. ↑ a b erzbistum-koeln.de: Kölner Märtyrer: Dr. Dr. Lisamaria Meirowsky , accessed January 6, 2015.
  6. ^ NS Documentation Center: Stolpersteine , accessed on January 6, 2015.
  7. ^ Stumbling block for Lisamaria Meirowsky , accessed on January 6, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Meirowsky, Lisamaria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dermatologist and pediatrician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Graudenz
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1942
Place of death Auschwitz