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" ................... Site Index Synopsis Introduction Index of People Index by Profession Extracts From The Book: Princess Marthe Bibesco Ana Blandiana Smaranda Braescu Madelene “Madi” Cancicov Nina Cassian Elena Ceausescu Ioana Celibidache Queen Elisabeth of Romania Princess Gregoire Ghica Princess Ileana of Romania Dora D’Istria Monica Lovinescu Ileana Malancioiu Queen Marie of Romania Dr. Agnes Kelly Murgoci Mabel Nandris Countess Anna de Noailles Ana Novac Oana Orlea Ana Pauker Marta Petreu Elisabeta Rizea of Nucsoara Sanda Stolojan Leontina Vaduva Anca Visdei Sabina Wurmbrand |
"Blouse Roumaine" - Extracts from the Book .................................................................................................. selected and introduced by Constantin Roman. Sabina Wurmbrand (Sabina Oster) (1) .................................................................................................. (1913, Romania – 2000, California, USA) Missionary of the underground church, Pastor’s wife, Political Prisoner, Exile ”..I was marched to the guard-room and put into a carcer. It was a narrow cupboard built into the wall in which you could just stand. The iron door had a few holes to admit air... After a few hours, my feet were burning. The blood in my temples beat with slow, painful thuds. How many hours could they keep me here?... Drops of water were falling from somewhere on the roof of the box. It was a desolate sound. I counted them to make time pass... I don’t know how long I did this, but at a certain moment I simply began to cry aloud to avoid despair. "One, two, three, four," I cried, and again, "One, two, three, four..." After a time the words became inarticulate. I didn’t know what I said. My mind had moved into rest. It blacked out. Yet my spirit continued to say something to God.” (“The pastor's wife”) --------------------------  Biography: Sabina Wurmbrand was born in a Jewish family in Romania and became a Christian, at the age of 23, in 1936, together with her husband Richard, who also converted. During WWII the Wurmbrands were busy saving Jewish children from ghettos, where several members of their family died. Still once Communism came to power the Wurmbrands fell foul of the atheistic system and both husband and wife were sent to forced labour camps. One of the charges was their evangelism in pressing bibles in the hands of the soldiers of the occupying Societ Army in Romania. Sabina Wurmbrand herself was jailed for three years in the 1951 pressed into slave labor digging and carting dirt for the Danube-Black Sea canal, a Stalinist pharaonic project intended to destroy political prisoners.. Held there for three years, she ate grass to stop starving. After her release from forced labour camp , Wurmbrand was kept under house arrest. She was offered a reprieve on condition that she repudiated her husband and her religion, which she refused. Both husband and wife were eventually released after a strong lobby from the Protestant Church in Norway and forced to emigrate, in 1966. First, the Wurmbrands, being jewish, they naturally wanted to settle in Israel, but ironically there too they were refused permission on religious grounds. They chose instead the United States where the Wurmbrands jointly founded the “Christian Mission to the Communist World’, later to become the “Voice of Martyrs” (VM), whose HQ are in Bartlesville Oklahoma. Like Oana Orlea (q.v.) Mrs Wurmbrand wrote her prisons memoirs describing the abject conditions and the deshumanisation of Romanian women in the labour camps. She died in California soon after she had the joy of a last reunion of her surviving women prisoners in Romania.. Biobliography: Wurmbrand, Sabina, “The pastor's wife” |
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