Sara-Ruth Schumann
Sara-Ruth Schumann (born on March 11, 1938 as Hedwig Abraham in Bremen ; died on October 26, 2014 in Hamburg ) was deputy chairwoman of the regional association of the Jewish communities of Lower Saxony and chairwoman of the Jewish community in Oldenburg . She received the Federal Cross of Merit and the City Seal of the City of Oldenburg for her services .
Life
Hedwig Abraham originally lived with her family in Bremen, where her father August, who was Jewish , worked as a locksmith for the Focke-Wulf- Werke. Her mother Marie was not Jewish.
In 1935 the factory police informed the father that as a Jew he was no longer acceptable in an armaments factory. The plant management held him for another year. Then he was able to work for a master blacksmith, Johann Benthien, until the November pogroms in 1938 .
In 1944 the family escaped arrest by leaving Bremen. Benthien organized a job in a branch in Mulmshorn . The family was able to cover up their tracks in Bremen - August Abraham was mistaken for the neighbor who was killed in an air raid. The estate owner von Hammerstein in the Lower Saxon village of Bockel provided the Jewish family with an apartment.
“The real identity of the family could not be concealed in the village. One wrong word in the wrong place and it would have happened to the Abraham family. But for the Bockeler it was absurd as informers to have the life of a family on their conscience. The Adam family - the registered name of the Abraham family - belonged to them and were protected. "
17 of her family members were murdered in Minsk.
Henning Scherf remembers that he and Hedwig Abraham went to the youth of the Stephani congregation in Bremen and that they were confirmed together .
As a Jew, Hedwig Abraham took the double first name Sara-Ruth. She first did a commercial training, but then became a nurse in Bremen and married the Oldenburg doctor Schumann. Sara-Ruth Schumann was the head of the cultural office of the city of Oldenburg and for over twenty years (until the end of 2012) she was the chairwoman of the Jewish community in Oldenburg.
Act
In 1992, Schumann and 15 other people re-founded the Jewish community in Oldenburg. Schumann was deputy chairwoman of the regional association of Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and a member of the board of directors of the Central Council of Jews in Germany . She was a member of the board of the Coordination Council of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation and was instrumental in the fact that Bea Wyler, the first female rabbi in Germany after World War II , was hired in Oldenburg in 1995 . Schumann was the holder of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and sat as a representative of the Lower Saxony municipalities in the Broadcasting Council of the North German Broadcasting Corporation in Hamburg. In January 2014, she was awarded the City Seal of the City of Oldenburg.
literature
- Wieland Bonath: A village is silent. A Jewish family goes into hiding in the middle of World War II. A reconstruction of the unusual story , in: Evangelische Zeitung, April 21, 2013, p. 16 N
Web links
Unless otherwise noted: All web links accessed on October 31, 2014.
- Heide Sobotka: A woman full of ideas. Obituary in: Jüdische Allgemeine , October 27, 2014.
- Sara-Ruth Schumann, Jews, Christians and Muslims en route to the trialogue, The Jewish view, lecture at the 2006 international peace congress
- We are not orthodox , Spiegel interview with Sara-Ruth Schumann about the first German female rabbi, in Spiegel on July 31, 1995
- Heide Sobotka, the iPad grandma from Oldenburg, Sara-Ruth Schumann was 75 years old , in: Jüdische Allgemeine from March 14, 2013
supporting documents
Unless otherwise noted: All web links accessed on October 31, 2014.
- ↑ see literature "Bonath"
- ↑ see literature "Bonath"
- ^ Website of the Coordination Council of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation
- ↑ Heide Sobotka: The iPad grandma from Oldenburg. In: Jüdische Allgemeine , March 14, 2013.
- ↑ Big city seal for Sara-Ruth Schumann. oldenburg.de , January 21, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schumann, Sara-Ruth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abraham, Hedwig (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Deputy Chairwoman of the State Association of the Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony and Chairwoman of the Jewish Community in Oldenburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 2014 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |