Name Theresa Kugel | ||
Sister Theresa Kugel, OP (1912, Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Moscow Oblast, Russian Empire – 1977, Vilnius, Lithuania), was a Greek Roman Catholic nun. Her birth name was Minna Rahmielovna Kugel (Минна Рахмиэловна Кугель).
Biography
Born in 1912 in Orekhovo in a family of a rabbi. In 1929 Kugel graduated from high school in Yaroslavl, and returned to her parents in Kostroma, where he later met with Dominican sisters Stephanie Gorodets and Margarita Krylevskoy. In 1931 Theresa Kugel was baptized in the Catholic Church, in 1932 moved to Krasnodar, where she was tonsured a nun with the name Teresa. On 6 October 1933 in Krasnodar was arrested and taken to Moscow, where she was placed in Butyrskaya prison. On 19 February 1934 she was sentenced to 3 years in a labor camp. Kugel was released on 16 November 1935. Since December, she lived in Bryansk and in October 1937 moved to Maloyaroslavets, during World War II she was in the zone occupied by the Germans. After Maloyaroslavets was eliberated by Red Army, Kugel was arrested on charges of collaboration with the Germans. On 31 October 1942 she was sentenced to five years in labor camps, sent to Temlag, being released on 25 March 1947 and after that she went to live in Maloyaroslavets. In the autumn of next year moved to Kaluga. On 3 April 1949 Kugel was arrested on charges of espionage in favor of the Vatican. On 2 July of this year she was declared mentally insane and September 17 aimed at forcibly treated in special hospitals. On 15 October 1952, Theresa Kugel was transferred into an ordinary psychiatric hospital. After her release in 1953, she lived in Vilnius, where later took monastic revival of the Dominican community. She died in Vilnius in 1977 during surgery.