Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Date
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1939
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Annemarie and Waltraud Kusserow
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
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Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Annemarie and Waltraud Kusserow in 1989.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-30 12:03:22
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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
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Franz Kusserow family papers
Document
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Concentration camp badge worn to identify a prisoner as a Jehovah's Witness
Object
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