Mirjam Michaelis
Mirjam Michaelis , b. Else Michaelis (born March 31, 1889 in Berlin ; † August 9, 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ) was a German nun of the order of the Joseph Sisters and a martyr .
Life
Else Michaelis was the daughter of a Jewish manufacturer. After attending a household school, she initially worked as a nanny, later she graduated as a clerk through evening school. At the age of 30 Else Michaelis was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church . In her free time, she volunteered for the Corpus Christi parish in Berlin , where she met sisters of the congregation of the Josephs Sisters . In September 1928 Else Michaelis was accepted as a postulant in the mother house of the Joseph Sisters in Trier and dressed as a novice in 1929 . She was given the religious name Mirjam for clothing .
After the perpetual profession in 1935, Sr. Mirjam worked in a home for difficult-to-educate girls in Saarlouis. She was later sent to the Xaveriusstift Berlin, from where she was transferred to Rotterdam in 1939 because of the increasing repression of the National Socialists and from there in 1940, after the occupation of the Netherlands , to the Franciscan Sisters in Marienwaard near Maastricht , because people of Jewish descent were the coastal area had to leave the Netherlands.
On August 2nd, 1942, Sr. Mirjam Michaelis was arrested in the course of an act of revenge for the reading of the pastoral letter of the Catholic bishops of the Netherlands on July 26th and together with other Catholics who had converted from Judaism , including St. Teresia Benedicta vom Kreuz , first to the Westerbork transit camp , then to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp , where she was murdered in the gas chamber on August 9th .
In 2005 a stumbling stone was placed in front of the house at Franz-Ludwig-Straße 7 in Trier, reminding of Sr. Mirjam Michaelis.
In 1999 the Catholic Church accepted Sister Mirjam Michaelis into the German martyrology of the 20th century .
literature
- Irmgard Schmidt-Sommer: He 'll put everything together ... The life sacrifice of Mirjam Else Michaelis, Joseph's sister from Trier, EOS-Verlag St. Ottilien, 2009, ISBN 978-3830673828 .
- Helmut Moll : Art .: Sister Mirjam (Elisabeth) Michaelis in: Ders. (Ed. On behalf of the German Bishops' Conference): Witnesses for Christ. The German martyrology of the 20th century. Volume II. Paderborn et al. 1999, 7th, updated and revised edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-506-78012-6 , pp. 1071-1074.
- Heinz Monz (ed.), Thomas Zuche (author): Michaelis, Else (sister Mirjam) . In: Trier Biographisches Lexikon, Trier Wissenschaftlicher Verlag 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 , p. 297 f.
Web links
- Entry on Mirjam Michaelis in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Michaelis, Mirjam |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Michaelis, Else (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Religious sister of the religious order of the Joseph Sisters and martyr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1942 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp |