• Faithful and Fearless in the Face of Nazi Oppression
    The Watchtower—2000 | April 1

    • That same month, October 1944, the police went after Evert’s brother-in-law, Bernard Luimes. When they found him, he was in the company of two other Witnesses​—Antonie Rehmeijer and Albertus Bos. Albertus had already spent 14 months in a concentration camp. Yet, upon his release, he zealously resumed the preaching work. First the three men were mercilessly beaten by the Nazis, and then they were shot to death. It was only after the end of the war that their bodies were located and buried anew. Shortly after the war, several local newspapers reported this execution. One of the newspapers wrote that the three Witnesses had consistently refused to perform any service for the Nazis that was contrary to God’s law and added that “for this, they had to pay with their lives.”