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1. Concentration camp uniform jacket with purple triangle worn by Jehovah’s Witness
1989.271.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.271.1
Date:
use: 1938 September-1945 April
…Concentration camp uniform jacket with purple triangle worn by Jehovah’s Witness…
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2. Wilhelm Kusserow, a Jehovah's Witness who was arrested and shot in Muenster because of his refusal to serve in the German military.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 68376
Date:
1938 - 1940
…Wilhelm Kusserow, a Jehovah's Witness who was arrested and shot in Muenster because of his refusal to serve in the German military.…
3. Anna Gustavsson papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.096 | RG Number: RG-32.010.01
Date:
1938-1990
…Consists of copies of documents issued to Anna Gustavsson by Nazi authorities accusing her of connections with the Jehovah's Witnesses.…
4. SD-Abschnitt Stettin (Fond 1240)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.11 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.11
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1940
Alternate Title:
SD-Section Szczecin
…Correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses, the confiscation of their printed materials…
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 … Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses, the confiscation of their printed materials, and one item about Jewish influence on churches. Note: USHMM Archives holds…
5. Selected records from the Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Leipzig
Document | Accession Number: 1991.0013 | RG Number: RG-14.002M
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1944
… are Jewish organizations, youth organizations, Romanies, labor, Jehovah's Witnesses, and confiscation of Jewish property.…
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 … the Holocaust era are Jewish organizations, youth organizations, Gypsies, labor, Jehovah's Witnesses, and confiscation of Jewish property. Languages…
6. Willi Seitz papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.061 | RG Number: RG-32.008.01
Date:
creation: 1937-1990
…), transferred him to France and then Switzerland. Shortly after his son’s trial, Franz Josef Seitz, a Jehovah’s Witness, was arrested for distributing illegal…
7. Sächsische Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden records
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0081 | RG Number: RG-14.011M
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1944
…; restrictions on Mischlinge; Jehovah's Witnesses; homosexuals; antisemitic propaganda; anti-Jewish laws; treatment of Ostjuden; concentration camps; treatment of…
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 … Zionist organizations and Zionist congresses; cases of Rassenschande; restrictions on Mischlinge; Jehovah's Witnesses; homosexuals; antisemitic propaganda…
8. Geheime Staatspolizeistelle Stettin (Pommern) (Fond 503)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.5 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.04
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1944
Alternate Title:
Records of the Gestapo in Szczecin
…Records relating to the surveillance and interrogation of Jehovah's Witnesses, individual Jews (case files) and Jewish organizations, Freemasons, and…
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 … Jehovah's Witnesses, individual Jews (case files) and Jewish organizations, Freemasons, and Seventh-day Adventists; relations between Jehovah's Witnesses…
9. Selected records from collections of the Hunedoara branch of the Romanian National Archive
Document | Accession Number: 2010.61 | RG Number: RG-25.063M
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1951
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… under forced labor, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the Deva Jewish Democratic Committee’s (CDE) correspondence with Jews, with the Joint, and with central…
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 … includes postwar material on emigration to Palestine, measures to prevent further killing of Jews, Jews under forced labor, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the…
10. Staatsanwaltschaft beim Landgericht Berlin (B Rep. 058)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.348.1 | RG Number: RG-14.118M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1946
bulk: 1950-1979
Alternate Title:
Public Prosecutor Office District Court of Berlin
… trials, and Nazi crimes against Jews, homosexuals, Sinti and Roma, the disabled, political prisoners, Jehovah’s witnesses, forced laborers, as well as…
11. Records of Hungarian Royal Home Defense Ministry, Presidential department A-Presidential series
Document | Accession Number: 2002.288 | RG Number: RG-39.004M
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
Alternate Title:
Magyar Kiràlyi Honvèdelmi Minisztèrium, Elnöki A osztàly-elnöki sorozat
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… of non-Jewish religious organizations, such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, and Nazarenes, as well as files on Roma and Sinti, and…
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 … disciplinary actions taken against members of non‐Jewish religious organizations, such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, and Nazarenes, as well as…
12. David Zugman collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.336.1
Date:
bulk: circa 1936-1949
… and killed by Ukrainians, and hiding with a family of Jehovah's Witnesses until liberation. After liberation, he emigrated to Canada. Also consists of…
13. Geheime Staatspolizei-Staatspolizeileitstelle Düsseldorf (RW 0058)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.457.1 | RG Number: RG-14.120
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1944
Alternate Title:
Gestapo Düsseldorf
… Arbeiterpartei); Marxism; foreigners; so-called Rückwanderer; so-called sects (including Adventists, Bibelforscher or Jehovah's Witnesses, Christliche Versammlung…
14. Gijsbertus Nicholaas Van der Bijl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.96
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1944
…Jehovah's Witnesses--Nazi persecution.…
15. Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Fond 500)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.2 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.01
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1945
bulk: 1936-1944
Alternate Title:
Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) Berlin
… various countries; Amt VII (Archives and Libraries)-includes essays on Jewry and Judaism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.…
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 … and Judaism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Administrative Information Restrictions on access: No restrictions on access…
16. Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP, Adolf Hitler, Berlin (Fond 1355)
Document | Accession Number: 2004.756.3 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.74
Date:
bulk: circa 1931-1945
inclusive: 1900-1945
Alternate Title:
Chancellery of Adolf Hitler, Berlin
… private individuals on personal matters, requests for help, letters from members of Jehovah's Witnesses to Hitler with protests against his policy towards…
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 … matters, requests for help, letters from members of Jehovah's Witnesses to Hitler with protests against his policy towards Jews (1934), letters to Hitler…
17. Magdalena Kusserow Reuter papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.34.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1942
… 1920s her parents became Jehovah’s Witnesses and raised their children in their new faith. In 1931 they moved to Bad Lippspringe, and their home became a…
18. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket with number patch and red triangle
1997.122.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.122.1
Date:
1937-1945 May
… prisoners, green for criminals, black for asocials or Gypsies, pink for homosexuals, and purple for Jehovah’s Witnesses. These were worn on the left side of…
19. Carl and Robert Gamer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.528.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1965
…, Adventists, Moravian Brethren, and Jehovah's Witnesses. The religious groups in the second category were sometimes viewed as "sects" (and the difference…
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 … broad range of groups, including Mennonites, Baptists, Methodists, Adventists, Moravian Brethren, and Jehovah's Witnesses. The religious groups in the…
20. Concentration camp inmate uniform pants
1997.122.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.122.2
Date:
creation: 1937-1945 May
… asocials or Gypsies, pink for homosexuals, and purple for Jehovah’s Witnesses. These were worn on the left side of the chest or on the left sleeve, and…