Sabina Wurmbrand

Sabina Wurmbrand (née Ostler; 10 July 1913 – 20 August 2000) was a Romanian missionary and human rights activist. The wife of the evangelical Lutheran priest Richard Wurmbrand, she and her husband became missionaries after converting from Judaism to Christianity in 1938. After experiencing persecution in Romania following the adoption of communism in 1946, both Wurmbrand and her husband were sent to gulags; while Wurmbrand was released in 1951, her husband was not released until 1964, following which they fled Romania, eventually settling in the United States and establishing the Voice of the Martyrs, a non-governmental organisation that aided Christians experiencing persecution around the world.