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Oswald Rufeisen (1922–1998), religious name Daniel Maria, was a Polish-born Jew who survived the Nazi invasion of his homeland, in the course of which he converted to Christianity, becoming a Catholic and a friar of the Discalced Carmelites.
Shmuel Oswald Rufeisen was born in 1922 in the town of Zadziele in the Krakow region. In November 1941 he came to Mir bearing false identity papers, and began working as a translator at the local police station.
Oswald Rufeisen was a Jew who worked as a translator and assistant to the German police commander in Mir, Belarus, during the Holocaust. He used his position to pass information, weapons and advice to the Jewish underground in the ghetto, and helped them escape to the forest and join the partisans.
Brother Daniel, born Oswald Rufeisen, is the son of Polish-Jewish parents. As a boy, he belonged to the Zionist youth movement. After finishing secondary school in 1939, he spent two years on a hachsharah training farm preparing for emigration to Palestine.
Nov 27, 2021 · Jumping right into our historical context, the pivotal figure, in this case, was Shmuel Oswald Rufeisen (1922–1998), better known as Brother (or Father) Daniel, O.C.D., a Polish-born Jew who...
Oswald Rufeisen, a Jew from western Poland who arrived in Turzec just after the shootings there, pretended to be a Pole and was recruited to the police as a translator because of his excellent German.
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Aug 18, 2011 · In the struggle over definitions of Israeli and Jewish identity, Oswald Rufeisen, better known as Brother Daniel, was a pivotal figure. The case that Rufeisen (1922-1998 ) took to Israel’s High...
