On this day, Regina Jonas was born in Berlin.She studied at the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies and graduated as an Academic Teacher of Religion. After writing her thesis on the legality of whether a woman could be a rabbi, Jonas sought to be ordained. While she struggled with pushback from the Orthodox community, Jonas succeeded in 1935 when Rabbi Max Dienemann of the Liberal Rabbis Association ordained her, making history in Judaism’s liberal circles. After working in a small German community, the Nazi Gestapo sent her to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. At the camp, Rabbi Jonas worked with Victor Frankl, greeting people on coming off the deportation trains. During her time in Theresienstadt, she wrote 24 pieces of Jewish thought, titled “Lectures of the One and Only Woman Rabbi Regina Jonas”. The topics in her series ranged between women in Jewish history and Talmudic issues. After two years in the camp, the Nazis murdered Rabbi Regina Jonas (z”l).