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226. Hans-Werner Kusserow in Bad Lippspringe one year after his liberation.
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES -- Families/Portraits ... CHILDREN/YOUTH; CLOSE-UPS; GERMANS; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; KUSSEROW FAMILY; STUDIO PORTRAITS; YOUTH ... Jehovah's Witnesses. ... study activity, as well as in response to the refusal of Jehovah's Witnesses to serve in the military
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227. Paul-Gerhard Kusserow in Bad Lippspringe one year after his liberation.
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES -- Families/Portraits ... CHILDREN/YOUTH; CLOSE-UPS; GERMANS; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; KUSSEROW FAMILY; STUDIO PORTRAITS; YOUTH ... Jehovah's Witnesses. ... study activity, as well as in response to the refusal of Jehovah's Witnesses to serve in the military
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228. Helene Gotthold with her children Gerd and Gisela.
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES -- Families/Portraits ... CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS); CHILDREN/YOUTH; GERMANS; GOTTHOLD, HELENE; GROUP PORTRAITS; JEHOVAH ... Helene Gotthold with her children Gerd and Gisela. Gotthold was a Jehovah's Witness arrested for
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229. Name: Karl-Heinz Kusserow Date of Birth: December 7, 1917 Place of Birth: Bochum, Germany Karl-Heinz was born during World War I, while his father was in the German army.
GERMANS; ID CARDS (USHMM); ID CARDS (USHMM, NON-JEWS); JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; KUSSEROW, KARL-HEINZ ... parents became Jehovah's Witnesses and gave their children daily Bible lessons. When Karl-Heinz was 13 ... of a new Jehovah's Witness congregation. 1933-39: Because of the Jehovah's Witnesses' missionary
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230. The striped overcoat of a prison uniform worn at the Buchenwald concentration camp bearing a purple triangle on the number patch.
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES N; TEXTILES N; UNIFORMS (PRISONER) N ... identifies the prisoner as a Jehovah's Witness.
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231. Non-Jewish Victims
” believed to threaten the biological purity and strength of the “superior Aryan” race. Jehovah ... ’s Witnesses Jehovah’s Witnesses endured intense persecution under the Nazi regime. About 10,000, most of them ... establishing massive forced-labor programs, and relocating hundreds of thousands. Jehovah’s Witnesses Jehovah ... ’s Witnesses were subjected to intense persecution under the Nazi regime. An estimated 1,000 German Jehovah
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232. Berthold Mewes
western Germany. Paderborn was near Bad Lippspringe, where there was a Jehovah ... outlaw Jehovah's Witness activities. 1933-39: When Berthold was 4, his parents became Jehovah ... Although he had no contact with other Jehovah's Witnesses, his faith in Jehovah and the teachings of the ... in 1945 when he was 15, and together the family resumed their lives as Jehovah's Witnesses. Berthold
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233. The Paint Roller
Franz Wohlfahrt was a son, a brother, a fiancé, a house painter, and a Jehovah’s Witness ... . The Nazis persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses because they refused to serve in the military or swear an ... Franz Wohlfahrt and his family for being Jehovah’s Witnesses. A tool of his trade as a painter played a
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234. Johann Stossier
which also happened to have a Jehovah's Witness congregation. He became a Jehovah's Witness during the ... do missionary work for the Jehovah's Witnesses even after this was banned by the Austrian government ... in 1936. The situation for Jehovah's Witnesses worsened after Germany ... Sachsenhausen, the Germans tried to force Johann to repudiate his faith as a Jehovah's Witness, but Johann
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235. Robert Buckley papers
Robert Buckley (1938- ) converted his religion to become a Jehovah's Witness in 1959. After which ... Buckley served in a number of capacities for the Jehovah's Witnesses, including public relations and news ... Museum in 1988, and began conducting interviews with Holocaust survivors who were also of the Jehovah ... 's Witness faith. The Robert Buckley oral history collection contains 123 interviews with Jehovah's Witness
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236. Ruth Warter
1923, when Uzliekniai became part of Lithuania, she joined the Jehovah's Witnesses. She married Eduard ... Warter, another Jehovah's Witness, in 1928. They had four children over the next five years. 1933 ... to win him away from Jehovah. An officer asked Ruth to persuade Eduard to join the army, but she ... Jehovah's Witnesses, deported them to Siberia in 1950. In 1969 they returned to Germany.
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237. Magdalena Kusserow
One of 11 children, Magdalena was raised as a Jehovah's Witness ... headquarters of the local Jehovah's Witness congregation. By age 8 Magdalena could recite many Bible verses by ... heart. 1933-39: The Kusserow's loyalty was to Jehovah, so the Nazis ... were also in Ravensbrueck; with God's help, the Jehovah's Witnesses stuck together. During a
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238. German Military Oaths
represented a high crime against not only Germany, but also the Führer himself. This placed one group, Jehovah ... 's Witnesses, in a particularly difficult position. Jehovah's Witnesses do ... ruler. By 1939 thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses had been arrested, tried by judicial authorities and
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239. Forward, You Witnesses!
Musician Erich Frost was a devout Jehovah's Witness active in the ... from the Jehovah's Witness Songbook. Simone Arnold Liebster, who sings the English version of ... following the Jehovah's Witness faith. Eventually both her father (Adolphe Arnold) and mother were arrested
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240. 1935: Key Dates
. April 1The German government bans Jehovah's Witness ... organizations. The ban is due to Jehovah's Witnesses refusal to swear allegiance to the state; their religious
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241. Classification System in Nazi Concentration Camps
Jehovah's Witnesses refused to serve in the German army or take an oath of obedience to ... triangles. Gay men and men accused of homosexuality were identified with pink triangles. And Jehovah
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242. Who were the Victims?
Jehovah’s Witnesses, gay men and men accused of homosexuality, and ... political prisoners died or were killed. Jehovah’s Witnesses were a religious ... Approximately 1,900 Jehovah’s Witnesses died in the camps. Most of the victims were men of German nationality
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243. Adolphe Arnold
Disillusioned with the Catholic church, Adolphe and his wife decided to become Jehovah ... was a Jehovah's Witness and imprisoned in Mulhouse for two months. In ... 's sister-in-law was able to smuggle to him some Jehovah's Witness literature hidden inside cookies. In
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244. Hilda Kusserow
became a Jehovah's Witness. After 1931 the Kusserow home in the small town ... of Bad Lippspringe was the headquarters of a Jehovah's Witness congregation. 1933-39: The ... Jehovah. Hilda continued doing missionary work even though it was banned. In 1936 she was arrested and
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245. Gregor Wohlfahrt
Jehovah's Witnesses during the late 1920s. Gregor supported his wife and six children by working as a ... farmer and quarryman. 1933-39: The Austrian government banned Jehovah's Witness missionary work in ... members of Gregor's Jehovah's Witness congregation were persecuted by the
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246. Emma Arnold
Emma and her family decided to become Jehovah's Witnesses. Emma felt she ... daughter about Jehovah and the importance of obeying His commandments. Life in Mulhouse was peaceful and ... family were no longer free to be Jehovah's Witnesses. The Gestapo arrested
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247. Johanna Niedermeier Buchner
Jehovah's Witness. 1933-39: Johanna traveled constantly in and out of Austria distributing our ... Jehovah's Witness literature. In March 1938 Germany annexed Austria and her ... Jehovah and he gave her the strength to withstand the hardships of the war. Johanna was liberated
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248. Willibald Wohlfahrt
Austria known as Carinthia. Disillusioned with Catholicism, his father and mother became Jehovah ... the leader of the local Jehovah's Witness congregation. 1933-39: Willibald lived in a beautiful ... area near lakes and mountains. The Wohlfahrts were active in Jehovah's Witness missionary work, even
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249. Wolfgang Kusserow
When Wolfgang was an infant, his parents became Jehovah ... Their home became the headquarters of a new Jehovah's Witness congregation. Wolfgang and his ten ... scrutiny by the Nazi secret police because of their religion. As a Jehovah's Witness, Wolfgang believed
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250. Helene Gotthold
World War I, Helene, who was a nurse, and her husband became Jehovah's Witnesses in 1926. Together, they ... Jehovah's Witnesses were persecuted for their missionary work and because they believed their sole ... family survived and resumed their Jehovah's Witness missionary work in Germany.