Schwester M. Gabriele (Agnes) Prümm SSCJ
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Imprisonment 28.05.1943 - 17.11.1943,
Forced labor 17.11.1943 - 31.03.1944
Curriculum Vitae
Agnes Prümm was born in Differten in the Saarlouis district of Saarland in Germany. After elementary school, she attended the domestic school of the Salesian Sisters' boarding school in Hougaard in Belgium. She then began working as a domestic help. In 1914, at the age of 24, she joined the Congregation of the Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Sisters of the Sacred Heart) and was transferred to Vienna. She received her vows in 1915, her profession in 1917 and finally her perpetual vows on August 21, 1924. After a brief assignment in Franz Josefs Hospital, she worked in the motherhouse in Vienna's 3rd district, teaching music and working as an organist.
In the motherhouse of the Sacred Heart Sisters, Sister M. Gabriele also experienced the fall of Austria with the invasion of the German Wehrmacht in March 1938. After the start of the war, a military hospital for wounded soldiers was set up there. The nuns were responsible for the care and feeding of the wounded soldiers. Sister M. Gabriele was assigned to serving food in the dining room. In May 1943, she says to the wounded:
"If the murdering goes on like this, the world will end. When will you finally stop killing?"
"It should not go unmentioned that, especially in recent times, the most nonsensical rumors about the imminent collapse of Germany, war fatigue among the troops, etc. have been spread among the population and the Wehrmacht with particular zeal and extraordinary perseverance by circles with an emphatically clerical attitude."
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- Archiv Dienerinnen des heiligsten Herzens Jesu, Herz Jesu Schwestern (SSCJ)
- Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstands (DÖW)
