CONCENTRATION CAMPS
(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:
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