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Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
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CONCENTRATION CAMPS

(See also Nazism; Prisons)

(Note centered headings below: Jehovah’s Witnesses; List by Name; Quotations)

Jews: g04 6/22 30; g89 4/8 4-8

map of Nazi camps: g89 4/8 10

men seen as weaker than women: g92 7/8 16

Jehovah’s Witnesses

assisting fellow Witnesses: yb96 88-89; jv 307-308, 665

assisting liberated prisoners: yb93 105-106

commendation for conduct: brfi 3

commendation for courage: g04 1/8 25; w95 9/1 32

death marches: brfi 25-26, 31

‘declaration renouncing faith’ promoted by Nazis: w11 1/15 11; jv 660-661, 663

content: jv 661

discussion: brfi 10-19; jv 659-665

European exhibition (1995): g96 6/8 16-19

exposé of concentration camps: g95 8/22 9-11

faithful unto death: w04 12/1 28; w00 4/1 27; g93 9/22 10-11

integrity: jv 663-664; g86 1/22 13

Jewish Witnesses: g01 12/22 19-23; w98 6/1 29-30; yb96 91-93

letters from Witnesses about to be executed: jv 662; w89 1/1 32; yb89 121-122; w86 2/1 13; w86 6/1 11

letter to Witness about to be executed: yb89 122-123

literature in camps: w17.08 14; g01 4/22 11-12; w99 3/1 28; yb96 100-101; jv 664

love for one another: yb00 166; jv 663-664

Memorial celebrations: w19.01 24-25; yb00 168-170; w93 5/15 29; yb89 133

non-Witness survivors commend: g 8/07 30; w94 11/15 32; w93 7/1 19; jv 179

Catholic: w96 1/15 4

de Gaulle, Geneviève: g95 8/22 10; jv 664

Jewish survivors: w11 4/15 21; w99 9/15 5; g98 10/22 6-7; g95 8/22 11

number confined in Nazi camps: w07 10/15 32; g95 8/22 10; jv 194

persons:

Abt, Harald and Elsa: brfi 16-17; bt 223; w06 8/15 25, 29

Benink, Gerrit: brfi 28

Borys, Feliks: g94 2/22 21-22

Bruch, Victor: brfi 29

Coana, Francisco: g99 6/22 22-23

Danner family: w09 6/15 4-6

Degen, Johann and Johanna: brfi 19

de Jonge-van den Heuvel, Maatje: w11 1/15 10-12

Desch, Franz: bt 55

Dickmann, Änne: yb99 145-147

Dickmann, August: brfi 12, 20, 30-31; w00 5/1 32; jv 660

Dickmann, Heinrich: yb99 144-147

Dornik, Henryk: bt 40-41; w07 9/1 10-11

Dost, Evert and Ansje: brfi 29

Engleitner, Leopold: brfi 18; w17.03 10; w05 5/1 23-28

Esch, Peter: g00 4/8 31

Franke, Konrad: brfi 7

Franke, Max: brfi 7

Frost, Erich: brfi 28; mwb17.04 6; jv 268; w88 3/15 21

Garnovskaya, Valentina: w19.07 6; w09 4/15 9-10

Gärtner, Hans: brfi 15

Heim, Adam: brfi 19

Hisiger, Joseph: w09 3/1 20-23

Hollweg, Max: brfi 17

Hombach, Maria: yb99 145-147

Kaptola, Yurii: yb07 197-198

Klohe, Georg: brfi 17

Liebster, Max: w96 6/15 8, 11; w95 6/15 5-7; w93 12/15 15-16; g89 4/8 7

Löhr, Elfriede: w19.07 12; yb99 145-147

Nepotschatov, Aleksej: brfi 16

Otrebski, Jan: brfi 16

Ott, Gertud: brfi 27

Partsey, Pyotr: yb08 112-113

Poetzinger, Martin and Gertrud: brfi 15, 27, 29; w19.07 12; yb99 146-147; jv 661, 663; w89 6/15 27

Rehwald, Josef (Joseph): brfi 28; yb99 145-147; g93 2/8 20-23

Sacksioni-Levee, Rachel: g01 12/22 19-23

Schön (Schoen), Joseph: g93 11/8 17-19

Séglat, René: w92 6/1 27-30

Sponsel, Theodor: brfi 17

Stark, Jonathan: brfi 10

Stossier, Johann: g93 11/8 18

Unterner, Marcel and Margarete: brfi 18-19

van der Bijl, G. N.: w98 1/1 25, 27-28

von Bennekom, Jacob: brfi 20

Wandres, Albert: brfi 15

Wauer, Ernst: w91 8/1 25-29

Winkler, Robert Arthur: w88 5/15 20

Wohlfahrt, Franz: g93 11/8 17-18

Yarosh, Nadezhda Alekseyevna: brfi 11; yb08 147-148

photos of survivors: jv 665; g93 11/8 17-18

places:

Austria: brfi 15, 27; yb89 116-118, 131-133; w86 6/15 27

Germany (Nazi): ijwfq article 57; brfi 30; g92 11/22 18-19; g89 4/8 13-16

Hungary: yb96 80-83, 91-93, 100-102; w93 7/15 11

Indonesia: w94 6/1 21-22

Mozambique: g99 6/22 22-23; yb96 140-150, 153-168

Netherlands: jv 307-308

Poland: brfi 16; w04 10/15 27-28; g89 4/8 14-15; w87 3/1 22-24; g86 1/22 13-14

Siberia: g99 2/22 13-14

Soviet Union: w17.08 14; g01 4/22 11-12; w87 3/1 23-24; w86 2/1 13-14

prayer before firing squad: g93 9/22 10-11

purple triangles: ijwex article 13; w07 9/1 10; w06 2/15 32; g93 11/8 16

Purple Triangles exhibitions: brfi 3

school reports on: w04 9/1 29; g03 9/8 19

service experiences:

Jews accept truth: bt 53, 55

journalist recalls preaching: g01 4/22 12

SS officer learns truth: bt 55; yb89 132

Ukrainian prisoners of war: yb02 144-146

song “Forward, You Witnesses!”: mwb17.04 6; w88 3/15 21

spiritual food: w91 8/1 27-29; yb89 133

SS trust Witnesses: jv 663

survivors: yb99 140-141, 144-147

treatment: jv 660-661

Witness comments: w01 3/15 9; yb99 144-146; w96 1/15 4

witnessing: g01 4/22 12; g99 6/22 23; w93 2/1 5; w93 9/15 19; jv 664; w91 8/1 28-29; yb89 132-133

Witness saved from gas: yb00 170

List by Name

Amersfoort (Netherlands): brfi 20

Auschwitz (Oświęcim) (Poland): brfi 16-17, 31; g05 12/8 28; g95 10/8 28; jv 663; g89 4/8 5-8, 14-15; g86 1/22 13-14

“Auschwitz lie”: g89 4/8 5

book Imprisoned for Their Faith—Jehovah’s Witnesses in Auschwitz Concentration Camp: g 4/06 11

exhibition “Imprisoned for Their Faith—Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Nazi Regime” (Poland, 2004): g 4/06 10-11

inmate commends Witnesses: w94 11/15 32

journalist commends Witnesses: w95 9/1 32

officer expresses frustration with Witnesses: km 2/00 5

Polish Witnesses: w04 10/15 27

speech by Pope Benedict XVI (2006): w07 5/15 32

statements by commandant Rudolf Höss: jv 663; g89 4/8 6-7

Witnesses honored on memorial day (2003): w05 8/15 30

Witnesses of Jewish descent: w98 6/1 29-30; yb96 92

Bergen-Belsen (Germany): brfi 3, 31

Witnesses of Jewish descent: yb96 92-93

Bor (Serbia): yb09 164; yb06 97-100; yb96 87-89; w93 7/15 11

Buchenwald (Germany): brfi 13-15, 31; jv 661, 664; w92 6/1 28-29; g91 6/22 28; g89 4/8 8, 14

life stories of survivors: w05 5/1 23-28

plaque commemorating Witnesses who suffered (2002): yb03 13, 21-23

postcard from Peter Esch: g00 4/8 31

sign at entrance: g95 10/22 30

SS officer assigned to: g95 1/8 12-13

statement Witnesses had to sign: w06 4/1 23

Circle of Carico (Mozambique): g99 6/22 22-23; yb96 140-150, 153-168

Dachau (Germany): brfi 19, 31; w89 6/15 27

death march toward German Alps (1945): brfi 25

“welcome” speech: yb89 113

Witness gives hope to Russian girl: w93 2/1 5

Esterwegen (Germany):

diagram: g95 8/22 11

sergeant “Iron Gustav”: g92 11/22 18-19

Gross-Rosen (Poland): w07 9/1 10

Gusen (Austria): yb89 117, 132-133

Kasaji (Belgian Congo): yb04 172

Lichtenburg (Germany): brfi 10; w97 5/1 25-26

Maidanek (Poland): yb08 112-113

Mauthausen (Austria): brfi 15, 27; yb00 166-167; g99 10/22 16; jv 660-661, 665; w89 6/15 27; yb89 116-118, 131-132; w86 6/15 27

“welcome” speech: yb89 116, 131

Mittelbau-Dora (Germany): w07 9/1 11

Moringen (Germany): brfi 10

Neuengamme (Germany): brfi 26; w11 4/15 21; jv 664; w91 8/1 28-29

Niederhagen (Germany): brfi 17; w05 5/1 26

Ravensbrück (Germany): brfi 10-11, 27, 31; w05 5/1 26-27; yb00 166; w97 5/1 26-27; jv 664; g93 2/8 22-23

survivors go in service right away: w96 5/1 22

Witness from Netherlands: w11 1/15 10-12

world premiere of Stand Firm video: yb99 143-144; yb98 46-47; g97 6/22 14-15

Sachsenhausen (Germany): brfi 3, 12-13, 31; w05 1/1 22; w98 1/1 27; jv 660-661; g93 2/8 20-22; w91 8/1 26-28; g89 4/8 7, 14

death march: brfi 25; w13 8/15 18, 22; w13 12/15 16; w03 10/1 19; w98 1/1 27-28; jv 665

diagram: brfi 32; g95 8/22 11

execution of August Dickmann: brfi 12, 20, 30-31; w00 5/1 32; jv 660; g93 2/8 21

Schirmeck-Vorbruck (France): brfi 18

Şibot (Romania): yb06 100

Stutthof (Poland): g94 2/22 21-22; yb93 105-106; w87 3/1 22-24

death march from: brfi 26-27

survivor commends Witnesses: w94 11/15 32

Treblinka (Poland): g89 4/8 8

Wewelsburg (Germany): brfi 17, 31; jv 665; g93 2/8 22

Quotations

behavior of Witnesses embodies virtues essential to continued existence of a democratic state: brfi 3

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