The chemist Dr. Karl Hilferding (born on September 12, 1905) came from a Jewish socialist family of doctors. In 1924 Hilferding converted to the Catholic faith and joined Societas Verbi Divini (SVD), a missionary order in Mödling, in 1933. In 1938 he was sent by the order to the Netherlands to study theology. He died in an outside camp near Niederkirch in the district of Gross Strehlitz.
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