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The author is Content Coordinator of the German Website, Digital Department, Cultural and Public Engagement Division, Yad Vashem.
Regina Jonas: Pastor and Rabbi in Theresienstadt
"To be 'blessed' by God means to bestow blessings, goodness and loyalty – regardless of place or situation." These words were the last that Regina Jonas wrote down in Thereseinstadt before she was deported to Auschwitz. In the spirit of this quote, Regina was a rabbi and pastor in Theresienstadt for two years. She worked in the ghetto's "Department for Mental Hygiene" set up by psychoanalyst Viktor Frankl. Her job was to receive the traumatized deportees who came straight from the trains... Continue reading