Franz Wohlfahrt family collection
Collection
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of a paint roller and stencil, two wallpaper samples, a plaque, a death certificate, and a Bible relating to the experiences of Franz Wohlfahrt and his family and their persecution as Jehovah Witnesses by the government of Nazi Germany, 1933-1945.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Franz and Maria Wohlfahrt and in 2006 by Franz Wohlfahrt.
- Date
- approximately 1938-1945
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- Geography
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use:
Jehovah's Witness mission;
Velden am Worthersee (Austria)
publication: Magdeburg (Germany)
- Date
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publication:
1928
- Geography
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creation:
Pörtschach am Wörthersee (Austria)
- Date
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undated:
- Geography
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use:
Rollwald (Concentration camp);
Rodgau (Germany)
- Date
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use:
1943-1945
- Geography
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issue:
Berlin (Germany)
- Date
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issue:
1939 December 07
- Geography
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creation:
Rollwald (Concentration camp);
Nieder-Roden (Germany)
- Date
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creation:
approximately 1944
- Geography
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found:
Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp);
Oranienburg (Germany)
publication: Leipzig (Germany)
received: Austria
- Date
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found:
1945 April
- Geography
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use:
Rollwald (Concentration camp);
Rodgau (Germany)
- Date
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use:
1943-1945
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Record last modified: 2020-06-11 08:57:51
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn85552
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Wohlfahrt Sicher
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.1
Wallpaper sample made by a Jehovah's Witness
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.2 a
Wallpaper sample created by a Jehovah's Witness in a German labor camp
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.2 b
Death certificate for a Jehovah's Witness preacher executed by the Germans
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.3
Wooden sign with Biblical verse made in labor camp by a Jehovah’s Witness
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.4
Die Bibel
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.5
Paint roller and stencil used by Jehovah's Witness labor camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2006.448.1 a-b
