Laura Henschel-Rosenfeld

She accepted, and became the subject of many of his paintings, including Portrait of Laura, Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, Shylock and Jessica, and Uriel Acosta and Judith.

[3] Evidence of his sorrow can be found in his letters to Henschel-Rosenfeld, and in his painting, Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, in which he placed his own name on the memorial inscription on the Torah mantle.

She worked in an orphanage for children of criminals and as a social worker among the needy segments of the population, and she established a communal home near Berlin which stressed harmony and equality amongst its residents.

She later founded "The House of the Order of the Free Spirit", calling it a "school for human education" and attracting many followers who knew her as "Mother Henschel".

Virtually all were lost during the Nazi occupation, save one 340 page leather-bound volume written in German by her own hand, called, "The Youngest Generation".

The only other written materials containing her thoughts are to be found in a commemorative book published as part of the Castrum Peregrini series in Amsterdam in 1951, comprising some 102 pages.

According to Israeli art critic Eugen Kolb, who authored a short monograph on her life, Laura Henschel-Rosenfeld's writings "attest to wide spiritual horizons and a philosophical bent."