Schwester M. Aniceta (Hildegard) Schiefelbein FDC

Hildegard Schiefelbein is born in Mocker near Thorn in East Prussia. At this time, there were almost an equal number of Polish and German-speaking inhabitants in Mocker. Hildegard Schiefelbein belongs to the German-speaking part of the population. Little is known about her early years, but she trained as a teacher at commercial schools in Troppau. During this time, she joined the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Love and was given the religious name M. Aniceta.

Between 1900 and 1914, Sr. M. Aniceta lived in Krakow and Brno, and from 1916 to 1919 in Sarajevo. She was then sent to St. Andrä and acquired Austrian citizenship in 1925. In St. Andrä, she experienced the occupation of Austria by National Socialist Germany. After the outbreak of war in 1939, she was transferred to the Marienanstalt in Vienna.

As an opponent of National Socialism, she and her fellow sisters listened to M. Genesia Rychetzky, Sr. M. Gualberta Krenn, Sr. M. Ewalda Schenk, Sr. M. Immaculata Schleimer and Sr. M. Meinrada Wleklo together with residents of the Jacquingasse women's hostel attached to the Marienanstalt and the Redemptorist priest Anton Pauk, the banned station "Radio Vatican". During the interrogation of Sr. M. Immaculata Schleimer by the Gestapo for passing on a mocking poem about Adolf Hitler, she mentions listening to the banned radio station together.

On November 22, 1939, Sr. M. Aniceta Schiefelbein is arrested by the Gestapo for listening to an "enemy radio station". She was imprisoned by the Gestapo and in the regional court and was released on May 31, 1940.