Articles from "The golden age" and the "Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses" and other publications relating to the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The articles were copied from various Jehovah's Witnesses publications and donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives by Robert Buckley in Sept. 1991.
Scope and Content
Consists of copies of articles from "The golden age" and "Yearbook of the Jehovah's Witnesses," and other publications concerning the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses, Protestants, and Jews from the beginning of Nazi rule through the years of the Holocaust. Some of the articles focus on the cooperation of the Catholic Church in the persecution of other Christian groups in Europe. Also included is a copy of a letter from a young Jehovah's Witness to his parents shortly before his execution.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Rutherford, J. F. (Joseph Franklin), 1869-1942.
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
Corporate Bodies
- Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Nazi Party
- Esterwegen (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Christians--Nazi persecution.
- Protestants.
- Hesse (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Netherlands.
- Austria.
- Catholics--Nazi persecution.
- Jehovah's Witnesses--Nazi persecution.
- Switzerland.
- Fascism.
- Political prisoners.
- Hungary.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Communism.
- Italy.
Genre
- Document
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