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Oral history interview with Annemarie Kusserow and Waldtraut Kusserow

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.29 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0029

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    Oral history interview with Annemarie Kusserow and Waldtraut Kusserow

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    Interview Summary
    Annemarie and Waldtraut Kusserow discuss their parents who became Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW) in 1921; being in a family of 11 children; the banning of the JW in Germany in the spring of 1933; the Kusserow family hiding JW literature in their house; the Gestapo searching the Kusserow home for forbidden literature 18 times; the arrest of their mother in 1935 the mother and her imprisonment in Krefeld, Germany; their mother’s refusal to renounce her faith, and her subsequent deportation to Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1943; their father’s first arrest in 1936, after which he was in and out of prison several times until 1940 when he was sent to a penitentiary until 1945; Annemarie’s imprisonment in a penitentiary; Waldtraut’s imprisonment in 1941; their other siblings who were sent to Dachau, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrück; two of their brothers who were executed; reuniting as a family in 1945; and people, including former Nazis, who began coming to the Kusserow family to obtain signed statements declaring their decency toward the JW during the war.
    Interviewee
    Annemarie Küsserow
    Interviewer
    Robert Buckley
    Date
    interview:  1988 October 18

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Branch, in cooperation with Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc. produced the interview with Annemarie and Waldtraut Kusserow on October 18, 1988.
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    2023-11-16 07:59:27
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