{"product_id":"from-gurs-to-auschwitz-the-inner-journey-of-maria-krehbiel-darmstzodter-9781621480426","title":"From Gurs to Auschwitz: The Inner Journey of Maria Krehbiel-Darmstädter","description":"\"It is this we have to learn in our times: to live with pure trust, without any existential certainty, trusting in the ever-present help of the world of spirit. Truly, there is no other way.\" -- \u003cb\u003eRudolf Steiner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaria Krehbiel-Darmstädter (1892-1943), who was murdered at Auschwitz, was a highly gifted pupil of Rudolf Steiner and a member of The Christian Community. Born into a Jewish family in Mannheim, she was deported to Gurs camp in the Pyrénées on October 22, 1940, where she survived harsh conditions and helped many of her fellow inmates. Following temporary sick-leave (under police supervision) in Limonest near Lyon, and a failed attempt to flee to Switzerland, she was brought to Drancy transit camp near Paris before being taken to Auschwitz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers unique testimony of an individual, rooted in esoteric Christianity and Spiritual Science, who found sources of inner resistance during one of history's darkest periods. As the portrait of a highly ethical and sorely tried woman amid catastrophic conditions, it describes her existential efforts to summon powers of concentration, meditation, and dedication to others, showing how these continued to inform her outlook and actions to the very end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolish Jews in Drancy referred to Maria Krehbiel-Darmstädter as Mère Maria. They experienced her distinctive spirituality and personal qualities and a profound religiosity that retained an inner connection with the Christian sacramental world, even in the most desolate circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e\"Egoism grows ever less; the joy of humbling oneself to help others kindles the heart and broadens one's mind to infinity. Even the simple life, the landscape--the routine--the isolation, even the severity: these are useful. I, at least, attempt to take everything that happens as a tool for learning. And the time spent here: I see it on a grand scale. A most earnest consecration.\" -- \u003cb\u003eMaria Krehbiel-Darmstädter, \u003c\/b\u003e Gurs, March 24, 1941\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Gurs to Auschwitwitz\u003c\/i\u003e adds an important voice to literature on the Holocost and shines a light on the nature of spiritual, inner resistance during the dark years of World War II in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is a translation from German of \u003ci\u003eMaria Krehbiel-Darmstädter: Von Gurs nach Auschwitz, Der innere Weg\u003c\/i\u003e (Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, Stuttgart, 2010).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelg, Peter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBorn 1963\u003c\/b\u003e, Stuttgart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1986-1993\u003c\/b\u003e Study of human medicine at the University of Witten\/Herdecke, in Berlin and Zurich. Doctoral thesis: Attempt to systematize Rudolf Steiner's human physiological ideas. An analysis of the entire lecture and written work (Witten\/Herdecke 1995).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1993-2000\u003c\/b\u003e Further training as a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy. Senior physician in the psychiatric department for adolescents and young adults at the Herdecke Community Hospital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2000-2002\u003c\/b\u003e Research associate at the Institute for Applied Epistemology and Medical Methodology (Freiburg).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2002-2006\u003c\/b\u003e Head physician at the Ita Wegman Clinic Arlesheim (adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy); since 2006 establishment and management of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Anthroposophical Research\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSince 2007\u003c\/b\u003e professorship for medical anthropology and ethics at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Alfter near Bonn); teaching in the Studium fundamentale and in the accompanying studies in anthroposophic medicine at the University\/Witten-Herdecke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSince 2020, \u003c\/b\u003eco-leader of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Section of the School of Spiritual Science (Goetheanum)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarton, Matthew:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eMatthew Barton\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator, editor, teacher, and poet, and taught kindergarten for many years at the Bristol Waldorf School. His first collection of poems was \u003ci\u003eLearning To Row\u003c\/i\u003e (1999). He has won numerous prizes for his work, including an Arts Council Writer's Award and a Hawthornden Fellowship.","brand":"Steiner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50918181372178,"sku":"9781621480426","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_93fb8d82-da07-4d83-8539-6f412f02dd43.jpg?v=1738879076","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/from-gurs-to-auschwitz-the-inner-journey-of-maria-krehbiel-darmstzodter-9781621480426","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}