Maria anne hirschmann biography for kids
Maria anne hirschmann
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Most Adventists today probably don’t remember her.
Her name was Maria Anne Hirschmann.
I don’t even know if she’s still alive. (Her former husband recently passed away, I am told.) An Adventist teenager living in the German-dominated Sudetenland of what was then Czechoslovakia, she left home at the age of fourteen to receive advanced training in the Hitler Youth movement.
Maria anne hirschmann biography for kids
Soon she became a devout and passionate Nazi, leaving the faith of her childhood behind.
Through a long journey of shattered hopes, imprisonment and escape from a Soviet labor camp, extreme privation, and a chain of providential circumstances, Maria made it back to the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Her story was initially told to the denomination in her first book, I Changed Gods (1), later expanded into a larger book, Hansi: Captive of the Swastika (2). The former book leaves Maria, her husband, and their fir