Over 280 pages enhanced with nearly 300 historic photos, maps, and computer-generated models, Rivka’s memoir is a testament to resilience and transformation.
 
Part I   Table of Contents
Introduction
The Phone Rang
From Herrnhut to Jerusalem
Passing the Torch of Healing
Wounded Spirits
How It All Began
The House Becomes a Home
Facing the Past
Conservation, Rehabilitation, and Baking Without Preservatives
Walls Constructed, Deconstructed, Reconstructed
End of an Era: Jesus Hilfe Becomes Hansen Hospital and Beyond
Schwesters, Sisters, and Finally Nurses
Redemption
Blossoming Boughs
Epilogue
 
Part II   Additional Readings
Contract of Sale of Jesus Hilfe, 1950
The History of the Moravian Church
Excerpts from Anna Maria Schubert’s Memoirs
Playground for Healthy Children
Excursion Days at Jesus Hilfe
Elizabeth Schubert’s Postcard
Thirsty Jerusalem
Conrad Schick’s Map of Jerusalem 1894
The Tzaddik Rabbi Arye Levin
Photos of Patients
“Harand the Leper” by Sr. Margarete Ribbach, 1939
Matrons, Nurses and Doctors Through the Years
Photo Album of Hansen Hospital (1954-1989)
The Deaconesses at Jesus Hilfe
Abu George
Jerusalem-Ramallah British Railway 1918
Hansen’s Disease and Treatment
My Father, Dr. Moshe Beer Goldgraber
A Palestinian Story: Dvora Broide Goldgraber’s Fayoumi Family
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Hansen House Photographic Essay
 
PLEASE NOTE: The email printed in the book has been changed to RivkaRegevJerusalem2025@gmail.com