Rachel Dror

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Rachel Dror , née Rachel Zipora Lewin (born January 19, 1921 in Königsberg ) is a German teacher. She is involved in the area of ​​Christian-Judeo-Islamic togetherness, advocates an open relationship between religions and admonishes mutual tolerance.

Life

Rachel Dror grew up in a traditional Jewish family. Rachel's father was an officer in World War I who fought for the German Reich . She attended the Lyceum, from which she was expelled as a Jew in 1934. She began an apprenticeship as a tailor, but in 1936 she joined a Zionist youth group and went to Hamburg , where from May 1936 to November 1938 she was preparing to emigrate to Palestine (Hachschara). When some of her group were arrested in the course of the so-called Poland campaign , Rachel moved in with her aunt Flora Rosenbaum, who worked as a teacher at the Talmud Tora School in Grindelviertel . After the pogrom night in 1938, she decided to emigrate to Palestine alone. Her preparation group was broken and her own family did not want to or could not emigrate. On April 29, 1939 , she emigrated to join the League of Nations mandate for Palestine . Her parents could not flee and were murdered in Auschwitz .

In 1948 she joined the police force in the newly established State of Israel , where she was responsible for road safety and traffic instruction in schools. She married in 1951 and her daughter was born a year later. In 1957 she returned to Germany , where, after completing her studies, she began working as a teacher of fine arts and technology at a language therapy school .

engagement

Since 1978 - and increasingly after her retirement in 1986 - she has been committed to the issue of Christian-Jewish tolerance. She gives lectures, she accompanies Christian-Jewish and Christian-Israeli projects and gives regular tours of the Stuttgart synagogue . She reports on her life and gives lectures on Jewish customs. In schools she wants to encourage young people to stand up against violence and human contempt. She is active in the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Stuttgart eV

Honors

In 1996 she was awarded the Otto Hirsch Medal and in 2012 the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg .

literature

  • Rachel Dror: Rachel Dror tells from her life: “We were glad to get out of hell. In Palestine we were free people. ” Audio CD, January 2013. ISBN 3-942902-06-0
  • Rachel Dror, Alfred Hagemann and Joachim Hahn (eds.): Jewish life in Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt , ISBN 3-89861-625-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lennart Bohne: “To Palestine!” Comments on the biography video interview with Rachel Dror. In: Hamburg key documents to German-Jewish history. September 22, 2016, accessed July 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Rachel Dror - GCJZ Stuttgart eV November 29, 2014, accessed on July 18, 2019 .
  3. ^ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: A 93-year-old and her message to the youth. March 17, 2014, accessed July 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Dror, Rachel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lewin, Rachel Zipora (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg