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Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/lutheran-nuns-end-jerusalem-mission-to-shoah-survivors/?
Lutheran Nuns End Jerusalem Mission to Holocaust Survivors
(Times of Israel) Renee Ghert-Zand - Beit Avraham (House of Abraham), run by the sisters of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary in Jerusalem's Talpiot neighborhood, is closing down. Since 1961 it has served as a guesthouse for Holocaust survivors. But with so few survivors still alive, the nuns have decided their work has come to an end. The sisters had originally come to Israel in 1957 to work as nurses in Israeli hospitals as a way of doing practical repentance for not only what the Nazis had perpetrated, but also for "the 2,000 years of Jews' suffering because of Christianity," as Sister Gratia puts it. "We as Christians had to do something in Israel. We couldn't continue as though nothing happened." Sister Gratia, 71, who arrived in 1975 from Austria and became an Israeli citizen two years ago, has no plans to leave the Holy Land.