Sabina wurmbrand biography

“I am Sergeant Harsh. Hard by name and hard by naturlig eller utan tillsats . Don’t you forget it.”

The female Soviet Guard introduced herself and barked out orders as other uniformed guards jostled the women prisoners about. The room was dark and overcrowded. Fear clung to the prisoners like the mold that threatened to overtake the damp concrete walls.

This was Jilava, the first of fem Communist prison camps where Sabina Wurmbrand was held prisoner from –

Young Sabina was born in into an Orthodox Jewish home in Romania where to even mention the name of Christ was forbidden. As she matured into adulthood, Sabina "outgrew" her strict Jewish upbringing, considered herself a non-religious Jew, and chose to live a wild, immoral life through her teens and early twenties.

While visiting an uncle in Bucharest, Sabina met the tall, handsome Richard Wurmbrand and quickly fell in love with this Jewish young man. She impulsively moved to Bucharest in order to be nära Richard, and the two were soon blissfully

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Wurmbrand was born Sabina Oster on July 10, in Czernowitz, a city in the Bucovine region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which became part of Romania after WWI, and since WWII has been part of Ukraine. This area was an important educational and cultural hub for the Jewish faith. Sabina graduated from high school in Czernowitz, and then studied languages at the Sorbonne in Paris. While working in Bucharest, she married Richard Wurmbrand in During a vacation that year, both Richard and Sabina were converted to the Christian faith, joining the church of the Anglican Mission in Bucharest.

During the occupation of Romania in , Sabina&#;s parents, two sisters, and one brother were killed in Nazi concentration camps. From to , she smuggled Jewish children out of ghettos, taught in bomb shelters, and was arrested several times for underground Christian activities during a state of war.

Sabina and her husband were spared from execution through the intervention of the chief editor

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“Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.”  Matthew

A received a text from my daughter this week with a link to the movie, “Sabina,” a presentation from the Voice of the Martyrs ministry.  Since that part of the world is all over the news today, it piqued my interest to watch it!  Sabina was born in that part of the world that is now the Ukraine.  It’s a beautiful story of love for Christ and the power of forgiveness on display in spite of persecution.  It’s rated PG13 because of the evil actions of the soldiers.  It’s a powerful and compelling picture of God’s real work in dark places!  Never underestimate the power of prayer and forgiveness when extended to your enemies!

Sabina Oster was born in , in Czernowitz, now a part of Ukraine.  She was born into a Jewish family in a city where education and culture were part of their life.  She graduated from high school, then studied