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Franz Wohlfahrt family collection

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    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.
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    Pamphlet

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.1

    Geography
    use: Jehovah's Witness mission; Velden am Worthersee (Austria)
    publication: Magdeburg (Germany)
    Date
    publication:  1928

    Wallpaper sample made by a Jehovah's Witness

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.2 a

    Geography
    creation: Pörtschach am Wörthersee (Austria)
    Date
    undated: 

    Wallpaper sample created by a Jehovah's Witness in a German labor camp

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.2 b

    Geography
    use: Rollwald (Concentration camp); Rodgau (Germany)
    Date
    use:  1943-1945

    Death certificate for a Jehovah's Witness preacher executed by the Germans

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.3

    Geography
    issue: Berlin (Germany)
    Date
    issue:  1939 December 07

    Wooden sign with Biblical verse made in labor camp by a Jehovah’s Witness

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.4

    Geography
    creation: Rollwald (Concentration camp); Nieder-Roden (Germany)
    Date
    creation:  approximately 1944
    Wooden sign with Biblical verse made in labor camp by a Jehovah’s Witness

    Book

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.5

    Geography
    found: Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp); Oranienburg (Germany)
    publication: Leipzig (Germany)
    received: Austria
    Date
    found:  1945 April

    Paint roller and stencil used by Jehovah's Witness labor camp inmate

    Object | Accession Number: 2006.448.1 a-b

    Geography
    use: Rollwald (Concentration camp); Rodgau (Germany)
    Date
    use:  1943-1945
    Paint roller and stencil used by Jehovah's Witness labor camp inmate
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    2024-03-01 14:14:09
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