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Kafka, Helene Schwester Maria Restituta
© Copyright Helene Kafka (Sister Maria Restituta). Photo, around 1925. Kafka, Helene (Sister Maria Restituta), b. Husovice, Czech Republic (then Hussowitz), May 1, 1894, d. Vienna, March 30, 1943, nun, surgical nurse at the Municipal Hospital in Wien-Mödling. Executed in 1943 by the National Socialists for "aiding the enemy and preparing acts of high treason", beatified in 1998. Literature: B. M. Kempner, Nonnen unter dem Hakenkreuz, 1979; W. Kunzenmann (ed.), Sr. Maria Restituta K. - Märtyrerin aus dem Widerstand, 1998.
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