Katharina Katzenmeier
KATHARINA KATZENMAIER (sister Theodolinde) was born on April 24, 1918 in Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse. She went to elementary school there for a year before attending the English Fräulein College in Benzheim an der Bergstrasse from Easter 1925 to Easter 1937. She then worked as a pastoral assistant.
On July 21, 1943 she was arrested in Püttlingen. She was accused of describing euthanasia in class as murder ordered by the state and expressing doubts about Hitler’s final victory. In her memoirs (source 55, p. 24) she writes that she certainly said the latter in church or private settings, but not in religious education classes because she knew how dangerous this statement was. “You are arrested for what you are,” she remembers being told to her. During the interrogation she was asked whether she doubted that Germany would win. Her answer: “Personally, yes.” When she answered „Christ“ to the question of who was higher in her opinion, Hitler or Christ, the interrogator replied: „So a Jew is higher than an Aryan.“ (ibid., p. 32ff.)
Katharina Katzenmaier was interned in prison in Saarbrücken for her “anti-state sentiments”. On October 21, 1943, they were deported from there to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. There she was given prisoner number 24295 and had to work in the armaments industry. She lived in Block VI and had to suffer all the horrors of the concentration camp there: hunger, illness, torture, cold, catastrophic sanitary conditions, lice, bedbugs, fleas and cockroaches. In Ravensbrück she also met DR. GERTRUD LUCKNER from Freiburg.
On May 2, 1945, KATHARINA KATZENMAIER had to go on the so-called death march with the other camp inmates at around 4:30 pm She survived and entered the St. Lioba monastery in Freiburg as a nun on All Saints‘ Day in 1949 .She died on August 5, 2000 at the age of 82 in a monastery in Mannheim.
In her memoirs, which were only allowed to be published after her death, she writes: “… I had incurred a fourteen-day “punishment block” because I emptied some of my soup into the bowl of a poor, sick Jewish child of eight gave him some of my bread. “You bitch,” the guard Holthöfer shouted, “you have to pay for this.” As punishment block prisoners, the women had to empty the sewers and transport the contents away in wheelbarrows. KATHARINA KATZENMAIER goes on to describe this time: “Barefoot and working non-stop until late at night with a high fever, scabies, typhus in the “shit column”, I spent these two weeks in the punishment block”.
KATHARINA KATZENMAIER, now Sister Theodolinde for a long time, describes her visit on January 2, 1990 to DR. GERTRUD LUCKNER in the St.Vinzenz retirement home in a particularly moving way.
KATHARINA KATZENMAIER (Sister Theodolinde) was born on April 24, 1918 in Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse. She went to primary schools there for one year before attending the English Misses‘ college in Benzheim an der Bergstraße from Easter 1925 to Easter 1937.Afterwards she worked as a pastoral assistant.
On July 21, 1943, she was arrested in Püttlingen. She was accused of having described euthanasia in class as murder ordered by the state and of expressing doubts about Hitler’s final victory. In her memoirs (Source 55, p. 24), she writes that she certainly said the latter in church or private settings, but not in religious education classes, because she had known about the dangerous nature of this statement. „You are under arrest for what you are,“ she remembers being told. During interrogation, she was asked whether she doubted that Germany would win. Her answer: „Personally, yes“. When she answered „Christ“ to the question of who she thought was higher, Hitler or Christ, the interrogator replied, „So a Jew is higher to them than an Aryan.“ (ibid., p. 32ff.)
Katharina Katzenmaier was interned in Saarbrücken prison for her „anti-state sentiments“. On October 21, 1943 she was deported from there to Ravensbrück concentration camp. There she was given prisoner number 24295 and had to work in the armaments industry. She lived in Block VI and had to suffer all the horrors of the concentration camp: hunger, disease, torture, cold, catastrophic sanitary conditions, lice, bedbugs, fleas and cockroaches. In Ravensbrück she also met DR. GERTRUD LUCKNER.
On May 2, 1945, KATHARINA KATZENMAIER had to join the other camp inmates on the so-called death march at around 4.30 pm. She survived and entered the convent of St. Lioba in Freiburg as a nun on All Saints‘ Day 1949. On August 5, 2000, she died at the age of 82 in a convent in Mannheim.
In her memoirs, which were only allowed to be published after her death, she writes: „… I had got myself into fourteen days of „punishment block“ because I had emptied some of my soup into the bowl of a poor, sick Jewish child of eight and given him some of my bread. „You bitch,“ screamed Warden Holthöfer, „you’ll pay for that. As prisoners in the punishment block, the women had to empty the toilets and carry the contents away in wheelbarrows. KATHARINA KATZENMAIER goes on to describe this time: „I spent these two weeks in the punishment block barefoot, working non-stop until late at night with high fever, scabies and typhus in the „shit column“.
KATHARINA KATZENMAIER, now Sister Theodolinde for a long time, describes her visit of 2 January 1990 to DR. GERTRUD LUCKNER in the St. Vinzenz old people’s home.
קטרינה קצנמאייר (Katharina Katzenmaier) (האחות Theodolinde) נולדה באפריל 1918 בheppenheim an der bergstrasse. English Misses‘ College בBenzheiman der Bergstrasse מפסחא 1925 עד פסחא 1937. לאחר מכן היא עבדה כעוזרת פסטורלית.
בייולי ביולי 1943, היא נעצרה בפיטלינגן. היא הואשמה בתיאור המתת חסד בכיתה בתור רצח על ידי המדינה ובהבעת ספקו ת על הניצחון הסופי של היטלר. בזכרונותיה היא כותבת כי היא בהחלט אמרה את זה בכנסיה או במסגרות פרטי ות, אך לא בחינוך הדתי, כי היא ידעה על הסיכון שבאמירה הזאת. „את תחת מעצר בגלל מה שאת“ היא זוכרת שנאמר לה. במהלך חקירה, היא נשאלה אם היא מפקפקת בזה שגרמניה תנצח. היא ענתה „אישית, כן“. כשענתה „אלוהים“ כשנשאלה מי לדעתה נעלה יותר, היטלר או אלוהים, ענה החוק ר „אז יהודי נעלה מארי“.
קטרינה קצנמאייר נכלאה בכלא זארבריקן בשל ה“דעות/רגשות האנטי-מדינתיו ת“ שלה. 1943 האסיר 24295 ונאלצה לעבוד בתעשיית החימוש. היא גרה בבלוק VI ונאלצה לסבול את כל זוועות המחנה: רעב, חולי, עינוי, קור, תנאי תברואה קטסטרופליים, כינים, פשפשים, פרעושים ותיקנים. בראוונסבריק היא גם פגשה את ד“ר גרטרוד לוקנר.
ב2 במאי 1945 קטרינה קצנמאי יר נאלצה להצטרף לאסירי מחנה אחר בצעדת המוות באזור 4:30 אחה“צ. היא שרדה ונכנסה למנזר St. Lioba בפרייבורג בתור נזירה ביום כל הקדושים 1949. הי א נפטרה ב5 באוגוסט 2000 בגיל 82 במנזר במנהיים.
בזכרונותיה, שאפשרה לפרסם רק לאחר מותה, היא כותבת: „…הכנסתי את עצמי ל14 “ את כלבה“, צרח Warden Holthöfer, „את תשלמי על זה . .“ ב משם את התכולה במריצות רת: „ביליתי שבועיים בבלוק העונש יחפה, עובדת. ללאם הפסקה עד שעות הלילה המ אוחרות עם חום גבוה, גרדת וטיפוס ב“shit column“.
קטרינה קצנמאייר, כיום האחות Theodolinde, מתארת את הביקור שלה ב2 בינואר 1990 אצל ד „ר גרטרוג לוקנר בבית האבות של St. Vincent.