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Kusserow family collection

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    Collection Summary
    The collection consists of two purple triangle badges that were used to identify Jehovah's Witness prisoners in Sachsenhausen and Ravensbruck concentration camps and photographs and documents related to the Kusserow family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
    Provenance
    The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Annemarie and Waltraud Küsserow.
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    Franz Kusserow family papers

    Document | Accession Number: 1988.134 | RG Number: RG-32.002.01


    Concentration camp badge worn to identify a prisoner as a Jehovah's Witness

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.240.1

    Geography
    issue: Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp); Oranienburg (Germany)
    Date
    use:  1940-1945

    White inverted triangle patch and prison number worn to identify a female inmate as a Jehovah's Witness

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.240.2

    Geography
    use: Ravensbrück (Concentration camp); Ravensbrück (Germany)
    Date
    use:  1940-1945
    White inverted triangle patch and prison number worn to identify a female inmate as a Jehovah's Witness

    Photograph of the Kusserow family

    Document | Accession Number: 1989.240.3

    Date
    1939
    Record last modified:
    2022-07-28 18:29:36
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