Word: klara
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convent was founded shortly after the war by two Bible teachers, Dr. Klara Schlink, daughter of an engineering professor, and Erika Maddaus, daughter of a merchant. Even after Hitler had banned Bible classes, the two teachers went on instructing a group of girls in a Darmstadt attic. In the night of Sept. n, 1944, an Allied saturation raid blasted the city. Wrote Dr. Schlink (now Mother Basilea): "It was a different language from human preaching. It was as awesome and unmistakable as God speaking in judgment. It went through bone and marrow. It was the hour of renaissance. The girls...