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1. Camp log books and administrative records from the Auschwitz Memorial Museum
Document | Accession Number: 1987.105 | RG Number: RG-04.013
Date:
1941-1945
…Jehovah's Witnesses--Nazi persecution.…
2. Franz Kusserow family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.134 | RG Number: RG-32.002.01
…The collection consists of two purple triangle badges that were used to identify Jehovah's Witness prisoners in Sachsenhausen and Ravensbruck…
3. Franz Wohlfahrt papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.A.0249 | RG Number: RG-32.004.01
…Consists of various materials describing the fate of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust in Austria and the Franz Wohlfahrt family's experiences…
4. Friedrich Wohlfahrt letter from Sachsenhausen
Document | Accession Number: 1989.A.0261 | RG Number: RG-32.005.01
…Jehovah's Witnesses.…
5. Oral history interview with Franz Wohlfahrt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0359 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0256
Date:
interview: 1989 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Franz Wohlfahrt, born in 1920 in Velden am Wörthersee, Austria, describes growing up in a family of Jehovah's Witnesses; the arrest of his father in…
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 … that year that your father became one of Jehovah's Witnesses? A: That's right. And he got a assignment in, uh, vicinity for about, uh, sixty kilometers…
6. Ida Gebel, Wilhelm Wensing, Else Wensing, and Klara Ditschi papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.069 | RG Number: RG-32.003.01
…Consists of copies of documents relating to the experiences of Ida Gebel, Wilhelm Wensing, Else Wensing, and Klara Ditschi, all Jehovah's Witnesses…
7. Concentration camp badge worn to identify a prisoner as a Jehovah's Witness
Object | Accession Number: 1989.240.1
Date:
use: 1940-1945
…Concentration camp badge worn to identify a prisoner as a Jehovah's Witness…
8. White inverted triangle patch and prison number worn to identify a female inmate as a Jehovah's Witness
1989.240.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.240.2
Date:
use: 1940-1945
…White inverted triangle patch and prison number worn to identify a female inmate as a Jehovah's Witness…
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9. Photograph of the Kusserow family
Document | Accession Number: 1989.240.3
Date:
1939
…The collection consists of two purple triangle badges that were used to identify Jehovah's Witness prisoners in Sachsenhausen and Ravensbruck…
10. Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate
1989.248.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.248.1
Date:
use: 1940 August 10-1945 May 06
…Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate…
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11. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate
1989.248.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.248.2
Date:
use: 1940 August 10-1945 May 06
…Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate…
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12. 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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13. Pamphlet
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.1
Date:
publication: 1928
Title:
Wohlfahrt Sicher
Alternate Title:
Prosperity sure
… faith and become a Jehovah’s Witness. He converted his family to the faith. In 1928, he began preaching publicly, trying to convert others. Franz had…
14. Wallpaper sample made by a Jehovah's Witness
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.2 a
Date:
undated: 
…Wallpaper sample made by a Jehovah's Witness…
15. Wallpaper sample created by a Jehovah's Witness in a German labor camp
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.2 b
Date:
use: 1943-1945
…Wallpaper sample created by a Jehovah's Witness in a German labor camp…
16. Death certificate for a Jehovah's Witness preacher executed by the Germans
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.3
Date:
issue: 1939 December 07
…Death certificate for a Jehovah's Witness preacher executed by the Germans…
17. Wooden sign with Biblical verse made in labor camp by a Jehovah’s Witness
1989.314.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1944
…Wooden sign with Biblical verse made in labor camp by a Jehovah’s Witness…
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18. Book
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.5
Date:
found: 1945 April
Title:
Die Bibel
… faith and become a Jehovah’s Witness. He converted his family to the faith. In 1928, he began preaching publicly, trying to convert others. Franz had…
19. Anton Wohlfahrt and Ernst Reiter photograph
Document | Accession Number: 1990.163 | RG Number: RG-32.016
Date:
1945 June
…One gelatin silver copyprint of a photograph of Anton Wohlfahrt (d. 1974) and Ernst Reiter (b. 1915), both Jehovah's Witnesses, taken in June 1945…
20. Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1990.222.1.1
Date:
use: 1939-1945
…Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate…