Matthaeus Pibal collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn952
• English
• overall: Height: 25.750 inches (65.405 cm) | Width: 16.875 inches (42.863 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by Matthaeus Pibal, a Jehovah’s Witness who was imprisoned in Dachau and Sudelfeld SS Berghaus concentration camps from 1940 to 1945. The purple inverted triangle badge identified him as a Jehovah’s Witness; the white patch above it has his prisoner number 14307. The Nazi regime actively persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses. Their beliefs did not permit them to put any authority, such as the state, before God, or serve in the military, and the Nazis saw this as subversive. Matthaeus lived in Austria which was annexed by Nazi Germany in...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn953
• English
• overall: Height: 24.375 inches (61.913 cm) | Width: 16.125 inches (40.958 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Concentration camp uniform pants worn by Matthaeus Pibal, a Jehovah’s Witness who was imprisoned in Dachau and Sudelfeld SS-Berghaus concentration camps from 1940 to 1945. Their beliefs did not permit them to put any authority, such as the state, before God, or serve in the military, and the Nazis saw this as subversive. Matthaeus lived in Austria which was annexed by Nazi Germany in March 1938. On April 8, 1940, Matthaeus was arrested by the Gestapo for speaking in public about the Bible. On August 10, he was sent to Dachau concentration camp in Germany and assigned prisoner number 14307. ...