Rev Richard Wurmbrand

Rev Richard Wurmbrand

Birth: 24 Mar 1909 Bucharest, Bucuresti Municipality, Romania Death: 17 Feb 2001 Torrance, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Burial: Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles County, California, USA Plot: Garden Meditation, Sect. 3, Lot 410, Space 4 Memorial #: 7416637

Bio: Religious Figure. Evangelical minister who spent fourteen years in Communist imprisonment and torture in his homeland of Romania. He is one of Romania's most widely known Christian leaders, authors, and educators. In 1945, when the Communists seized Romania and attempted to control the churches for their purposes, he immediately began an effective "underground" ministry to his enslaved people and the invading Russian soldiers. He waseventually arrested in 1948. He spent three years in solitary confinement, seeing no one but his Communist torturers. His wife, Sabina, was a slave laborer for three years. Due to his international stature as a Christian leader, diplomats of foreign embassies asked the Communist government about his safety. They were told he had fled Romania. Secret police, posing as released fellow prisoners, told his wife of attending his burial in the prison cemetery. Mr. Wurmbrand was released in a general amnesty in 1964. Realizing the great danger of a third imprisonment, Christians in Norway negotiated with the Communist authorities for his release from Romania. The "going price" for a prisoner was $1,900. Their price for Wurmbrand was $10,000. In may 1966, he testified in Washington before the Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee and stripped to the waist to show eighteen deep torture wounds covering his body. His story was carried across the world newspapers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Pastor Wurmbrand has been called "the voice of the underground church." His books are best sellers in over fifty languages. Inscription: Why Seek Ye The Living Among The Dead Family Members Spouse Sabina Oster Wurmbrand* 1913-2000

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Wurmbrand was born in a Jewish family in Romania. He was in a family of four children and he was still a little boy when his father died. He had a rather harsh childhood, because his mother was a woman of modest condition, widow with the hard charge to raise four little kids. They even tried a better life for few years in Istanbul, Turkey. They returned to Romania, and by the age 16 he was brought to Paris by one of his uncles, a USA citizen gone to Paris, France, for Communist activity. Wurmbrand was introduced by his uncle to the Soviet ambassador to France.

Richard Wurmbrand, the youngest of four boys, was born in 1909 in Bucharest in a Jewish family. ... In 1944, when the Soviet Union occupied Romania as the first step to establishing a communist regime, Wurmbrand began a ministry to his Romanian countrymen and to Red Army soldiers.

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Sources:

• https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/news/2001/mar/16/g...
• https://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7416637
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wurmbrand
• http://www.richardwurmbrandfoundation.com
• http://www.evangelicalsforsocialaction.org/heroes-of-the-faith/hero...