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"On Auschwitz" (17): prisoners with purple triangles - Jehovah’s Witnesses in Auschwitz
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:32:50
Publish Date: 2022-02-15 11:14:26
Description:

Activities by the Jehovah’s Witnesses were banned in the Third Reich in 1933 because of the Witnesses’ religious principles and pacifistic views, as well as their organization’s international connections. As a result, many of them were imprisoned in concentration camps.

Teresa Wontor-Cichy from the Auschwitz Memorial Research Center talks about the history and fate of some 400 Jehovah’s Witnesses incarcerated in the camp.

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In the picture:

A German Jehovah’s Witness Marta Proppe born on 26 December 1899
In #Auschwitz from 12 November 1942 No. 24418
She was transferred to KL Gross-Rosen. She survived. 
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