Language:
English
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Angaben zur Quelle:
64,4 (2013) 787-826
Keywords:
Kagan, Maly
;
Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel
;
Messiah
;
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust survivors
Abstract:
A biography of Maly Kagan (1897-1963), a Jewish convert to Christianity, who from the 1920s was a member of the Evangelical Church and in 1925-35 was a nurse in the Tannenhof psychiatric hospital in Remscheid-Lüttringhausen. In 1933-35 Tannenhof, like many other ecclesiastical institutions, was Nazified, and Kagan was dismissed from the hospital. After the "Kristallnacht" pogrom Kagan moved to Berlin, where she was an administrator of the Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel. In February 1943, following the advice of her friends, Kagan left Berlin and went underground; she was helped and hidden by a few Christians, who did not lose compassion for their non-Aryan brethren. Kagan's fate under Nazi rule was better than that of other non-Aryan Christians: e.g. patients of Tannenhof who had Jewish origins were deported to Nazi death ccamps, and many other active converted Jews perished in Nazi camps or elsewhere. Despite the readiness of some Protestants to help persecuted Jewish converts to Christianity, the Evangelical Church as such did not provide protection for its Jewish members, neither during Nazi rule nor in the first postwar years.
DOI:
10.1017/S0022046911002648
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