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Servant of God
Maria Aloysia Löwenfels
1915–1942
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Maria Aloysia Löwenfels PHJC, was a German religious sister. She converted from Judaism to Catholicism. In 1936, she fled to the convent of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ in Lutterade, Netherlands. In 1938, she was confirmed as a novice. On 9 August 1942, she was murdered in the gas chambers of concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. In 2015, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg announced that a beatification process had been started.
From Wikipedia, “Maria Aloysia Löwenfels”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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1915Born in Trabelsdorf
1942Died in Auschwitz
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Born
5 July 1915
Trabelsdorf
Died
9 August 1942
Auschwitz
Remembered as
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