Rahel Renate Mann
Rahel Renate Mann (born Renate Wolf June 7, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German psychotherapist, poet and survivor of the Holocaust .
Life
Renate Wolf is an unwanted, illegitimate daughter of a baptized Jew. She grew up in a Jewish foster family for the first four years because her mother Milda Wolf could not look after her. When the foster family was deported to the east in 1941, her mother brought her to her apartment at Starnberger Strasse 2 in Schöneberg , but in 1942 she was deported to a satellite camp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp for forced labor . Renate Wolf survived the persecution of the Jews, hiding from neighbors and in various foster homes, including in the pastor's family von Eitel-Friedrich von Rabenau , from November 1944 in a cellar shed on Starnberger Strasse until liberation by the Russians.
After the war ended, she lived again with her mother, who had survived her imprisonment in the concentration camp but was seriously ill. In 1957 she passed her Abitur at a grammar school in Schöneberg. Wolf studied teaching at the University of Education, passed the two state exams and worked as a teacher. In 1960 she wrote an investigation into the prejudices of high school students.
Wolf married and has two children. She trained as a naturopath and psychotherapist, worked in her husband's psychological practice in Berlin and, after the divorce, ran a psychotherapeutic practice in Braunschweig . In 1997 she emigrated to Israel to live with her daughter and her family and learned Hebrew for a self-study of the Torah . In 2007 Rahel Renate Mann returned to Berlin, where she appears in schools as a contemporary witness . Mann published three volumes of poetry.
Works
- earth and sky . Eberbach: Ed. Kavanah Bartmann, 1992.
- The eternal in man: poem and picture . Illustrations by Erich Constein . Heidelberg: Ed. Kavanah, 1994.
- with Hilka Koch : I offer you my hand: poems - thoughts - texts . Oldenburg: Schardt, 2005 ISBN 978-3-89841-177-6 .
- My mother never wanted me, maybe that helped me . In: Tina Hüttl; Alexander Meschnig (Ed.): You won't get us: hidden as children - Jewish survivors tell stories . Munich: Piper, 2013 ISBN 978-3-492-05521-5 , pp. 67-81. Short biography on page 81f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Rahel Renate Mann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sarah Maria Brech: The child who survived the Holocaust in the basement . Conversation. In: Die Welt , March 13, 2013
- Report by Holocaust survivor Rahel Mann: "He hit the child until it stopped screaming". SPON ONLINE Video, July 31, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Commemorative event for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The focus: 3 Jewish contemporary witnesses, former pupils of the Rückert-Gymnasium. In: hausamkleistpark.de. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Man, Rahel Renate |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolf, Renate (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychotherapist, poet and survivor of the Holocaust |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |