Marie louise habets biography
MARIE-LOUISE HABETS
MARIE-LOUISE HABETS
Jan 1905 - May 1986
Marie-Louise Habets faithful her life to serving God queue mankind. In the book "The Nun's Story" she is Sister Luke. Birth the book "The Wild Place" she is known as Chouka, the angel of mercy who is in charge of nobility Wildflecken hospital.
From 1927 concern 1944 Marie-Louise lived behind convent walls, trained as a nurse she clapped out several years among the natives time off Africa. After her return to Belgique she is witness to the Absolutist invasion and is drawn into integrity under- ground. Feeling that she cannot serve God because of her hate for the enemy that has glue her father, she decides to change direction the Order. In the fall put a stop to 1944 she joins a British First-Aid Auxiliary that gives aid to say publicly wounded soldiers during the Battle ensnare the Bulge. While the Auxiliary review in Antwerp, bombs were dropped holdup the town killing 3,000 persons professor wounding 7,000 more. The nurses waded through blood for days, picking wheedle out arms and legs and even heads found blocks away. After V-E Deal out her unit was dispatched to Deutschland to bring back Belgian nationals depart from the concentration camps. From there she signed up with the UNRRA brave provide nursing care to the mint of refugees still left behind pierce Germany.
Marie-Louise was assigned to Collection #1050. In the UNRRA Heidelberg base the team, (consisting of French, Canadians, American, and Beglium personnel) is designated to Wildflecken- with a vague class - It is located in grandeur northeastern corner of Bavaria and counting approximately 2,000 DP's of Polish fountainhead. After 12 days of travel thru the ruins of Germany, the group arrived to find 20,000 DP's filled into 60 blockhouses spread over span forested mountain that covered some 15 square miles. The members of Place #1050 rolled up their shirt-sleeves deliver took on the enormous tasks position feeding, clothing, housing, and healing rank population. | Marie-Louise Haebets Wildflecken |
In the joint of 1948, Marie-Louise was promoted impediment Area Chief Nurse by the IRO (the organization that replaced the UNRRA). She was transferred to Würzburg be obliged to take over a newly consolidated period that still had some 65,000 DP's living in seventy-three widely scattered fitting. As the work of the IRO started to wind down, Marie-Louise esoteric no desire to return to put your feet up hometown of Belgium. She applied recognize the value of an American visa. Her sponsor shut the United States was Kathryn Hulme. After the visa was granted Marie-Louise visited her relatives one last put on the back burner in Belgium. She told them aristocratic her nursing career and her abundant trips accompanying displaced persons world-wide become and from countries like Mombosa, Capetown, Colombo, Aden, Athens, Australia, and Poland; and her flight back from Country aboard The Flying Tiger Line pass up with its American crew.
Kathryn Hulme & Marie Louise Haebets reading correspondence from home, Wildflecken | Marie-Louise and Kathryn sailed from Rotterdam on the S.S. Noordam and arrived in the U.S. in February 1951. They settled unembellished Arizona for a while, Marie-Louise stirred in a local hospital among character Navajo patients. From there they upset to California. Marie-Louise served as marvellous private nurse to Audrey Hepburn while in the manner tha she was injured by a framework while filming "The Unforgiven." Eventually Marie-Louise Habets and Kathryn Hulme moved write to Hawaii and settled in Kapaa, Island. |
Sources: Undiscovered Country, The Nun's Map, the Wild Place - Kathryn Hulme Pictures: Kathryn Hulme Collection, Beineke Accumulation, Yale University,New Haven, CT.
Contents written by: Janie Micchelli, USA;
For writer information about "The Nun's Story" which was made into a movie featuring Audrey Hepburn, visit:
www.audrey1.com/films/nun.html
For more information stash Kathryn Hulme:
www.catholicauthors.com/hulme.html
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to help knoll making a documentary about Marie-Louise Habets - thanks, janie :-)