"On Auschwitz" (17): prisoners with purple triangles - Jehovah’s Witnesses in Auschwitz

Activities by the Jehovah’s Witnesses were banned in the Third
Reich in 1933 because of the Witnesses’ religious principles and
pacifistic views, as well as their organization’s international
connections. As a result, many of them were imprisoned in
concentration camps.


Teresa Wontor-Cichy from the Auschwitz Memorial Research Center
talks about the history and fate of some 400 Jehovah’s Witnesses
incarcerated in the camp.

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In the picture:

A German Jehovah’s Witness Marta Proppe born on 26 December
1899
In #Auschwitz from 12 November 1942 No. 24418
She was transferred to KL Gross-Rosen. She survived.