Overview
- Description
- Consists of a scrapbook of various documents and photographs concerning the Franz Kusserow family during the Holocaust. The materials deal with the persecution, imprisonment, and execution of the Kusserow family members and acquaintances of the family as a result of their affiliation with the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is thematic
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons. Genealogy. Holocaust survivors. Executions and executioners. Jehovah's Witnesses--Nazi persecution. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Geographic Name
- Bad Lippspringe (Germany)
- Personal Name
- Kusserow, Franz. Kusserow, Hilde. Reuter, Magdalena. Kusserow, Annemarie. Kusserow, Wilhelm. Kusserow, Siegfried. Kusserow, Karl. Kusserow, Waltraud. Kusserow, Hildegard. Kusserow, Wolfgang. Kusserow, Elisabeth. Kusserow, Paul-Gerhard. Kusserow, Hans Werner, 1928- Jahndorf, Luise. Jahndorf, Albert. Mewes, Berthold. Mewes, Sophie.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Kusserow
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The various documents and photographs were collected by the Kusserow family during the Holocaust. The materials were later compiled into scrapbook form by Annemarie and Waltraud Kusserow in Oct. 1988.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-02 08:46:22
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Also in Kusserow family collection
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.
Date: 1939-1945
White inverted triangle patch and prison number worn to identify a female inmate as a Jehovah's Witness
Object
White badge with an inverted trangle and the number 1989 issued to Lüise Jahndorf at Ravensbrück concentration camp to identify her as a Jehovah's Witness prisoner.
Concentration camp badge worn to identify a prisoner as a Jehovah's Witness
Object
The badge was issued to Albert Jahndorf at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in order to identify him as a Jehovah's Witness prisoner.
Photograph of the Kusserow family
Document
The photograph depicts a clandestine visit among the Kusserow children, Elizabeth, Hans-Werner, and Paul-Gerhard, their mother, and their two older brothers, Willhelm and Karl, near Minden, Germany.
