Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Holocaust
(2023)
Art Bouter
Eric Frost
Hildegard Kusserow
Johannes Steyer
Leopold Engleitner
Max Liebster
In 1933 Adolf Hitler launched a campaign to annihilate Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany.
Thereafter, the Nazi State unleashed one of the most barbaric persecutions of Christians in recorded history. Thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses were thrown into concentration and death camps. Here they were subjected to the most cruel and sadistic treatment imaginable.
How did Jehovah’s Witnesses react in the face of this physical and mental onslaught?
Bruno Bettelheim, psychologist and survivor of Dachau, makes this comment:
“… so dedicated were the Jehovah’s Witnesses to their faith that they managed to hold on to their integrity and were exemplary comrades, helpful, civil and dependable”.
This Triple DVD ROM collection tells the story of the holocaust from the perspective of Jehovah’s Witnesses caught up in Hitlers hate machine.
A harrowing but at the same time, heart-warming account is given of how daily survival was achieved by mutual support and encouragement.
This 3 DVD ROM set highlights, not only the evils of the Nazi regime, but also how an unswerving desire to live, hope and trust in Jehovah made it possible to endure all this and win the victory. (Romans 8:37).
The presentation is in FIVE sections, spread over 3 disks:
Reference Works and Articles
– 002 The Renunciation of Faith Document
– 003 Oh, Jehovah, Keep My Young Girl Faithful
– 004 Experiences from the Nazi Era
– 005 Forward You Witnesses
Every member of the Kusserow family was a faithful Witness of Jehovah, despite the fact every one of them were put into concentration camps, prisons or reform schools because of their faith.
(See “Proclaimers” p 449).
– 006 Jehovah’s Witnesses – Persecution 1933 – 1945
– 007 Why the Churches Kept Silent
– 008 Jehovahs Witnesses and the Holocaust
– 009 Jehovah’s Witnesses and World War 2
– 010 Simone Liebster – Holocaust Survivor
– 011 Sustained Through Terrible Trials
– 012 Jehovah’s Witnesses—Courageous in the Face of Nazi Peril
– 013 Persecution of Jehovahs Witnesses in the Nazi Era
– 014 Declaration of Facts
– 015 Spiritual Resistance of Christian Conviction in Nazi Germany
– 016 Die NS-Verfolgung-Koeln (in German)
– 017 Facing the Lion
– 018 Jehovah’s Witnesses Never Compromised with the Nazis
– 019 Catholic Bishops in Nazi Germany during World War 2
– 020 Religious Aspects of Nazism
– 021 Adolf Hitler and Religious Beliefs
– 022 Jehovahs Witnesses – Persecution & Incarceration
– 023 Testigos De Jehova (Spanish)
– 024 Forward you Witnesses – Interview with Erich Frost
– 025 Purple Triangles (full text of documentary)
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), and a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a main architect of the Holocaust. Himmler held an interest in varieties of occultism and Völkisch topics, and he employed elements of these beliefs to develop the racial policy of Nazi Germany and incorporated esoteric symbolism and rituals into the SS. While in British custody, he committed suicide on 23 May 1945.
– 026 Purple Triangles Brochure (German)
– 027 Resistance to the Reich
– 028 Life in German Concentration Camps (1933 – 1945)
– 029 Classification System in Nazi Concentration Camps
– 030 Defining the Enemy (the Story of German Propaganda)
– 031 Nazi Racial & Religious Ideology
– 032 The Final Solution
– 033 Science and Salvation (the Story of Weimar Eugenics)
– 034 Historians and JWs during the Nazi Period
– 035 Clergy letters insighting hatred against JWs
– 036 The Fascist Repression of Jehovahs Witnesses
– 037 Anti JW Newspaper Articles (German Propaganda)
– 038 Report on JWs from German Secret Police (1936)
– 039 Jehovah’s Witnesses – Victims under Two Dictatorships
– 040 Enemies – Judge Rutherford (1937)
– 041 Face the facts – Judge Rutherford (1938)
– 042 Judge Rutherford Uncovers Fifth Column (1940)
– 043 Refugees – Judge Rutherford (1940)
– 044 End of Nazism – Judge Rutherford (1940)
– 045 God And The State – Judge Rutherford (1941)
– 046 End of Axis Powers – Judge Rutherford (1941)
– 047 Religion Reaps the Whirlwind (1944)
– 048 One World, One Government (1944)
Max Liebster was born a Jew on February 15, 1915, in the small town of Reichenbach (Odenwald), Germany. For him the Nazi nightmare begun in earnest with the Kristallnacht (“Crystal Night” – 9–10 November 1938) when his small cobblers shop was ransacked. Max’s cousins escaped to America, but he was left behind to face arrest and imprisonment.
On September 11, 1939, just days after the start of World War II, Max found himself in solitary confinement, wondering about his fate. The next six years would bring unspeakable hardships—a tortuous journey that encompassed five different Nazi camps, including Auschwitz. Max teetered on the edge of death from disease and starvation. But it was Max’s encounter with the “purple triangles,” Jehovah’s Witness prisoners, in the camps Sachsenhausen, Neuengamme, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald, that gave him the physical and moral will to survive. They repeatedly risked their lives to give him food and shelter, and most importantly of all, hope.
Max emerged from the Nazi abyss determined to spend his energies in overcoming hatred with love and combating despair with hope. He tirelessly did so as an active Jehovah’s Witness together with Simone, his wife, until his death on Wednesday, May 28, 2008.
– 049 The Coming World Regeneration (1944)
– 050 The Commander To The Peoples (1945)
– 051 Stand Firm
– 052 The Bibelforscher in the Third Reich
– 053 Knocking (transcript)
– 054 The Badges of the Holocaust and their Meanings
– 055 Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany (1933 – 1945)
– 056 The Illinois Holocaust Museum
– 057 The “Telegrams to Hitler” Campaign
– 058 Buchenwald – Through the Eyes of an Artist
– 059 Jehovah’s Witnesses Work to Undermine Hitlers Regime
– 060 The Case of the Schmidt Family
– 061 A Triumph of the Will – Jehovah’s Witnesses
– 062 Survival and Resistance – Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands
– 063 Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Holocaust – Timeline
– 064 The Fascist Repression of Jehovah’s Witnesses
– 065 Female Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Concentration Camps
– 066 Purple Triangles – A Story of Spiritual Resistance
– 067 What Historians Say About Jehovah’s Witnesses during the Nazi Period
– 068 Letter from the Supreme Ecclesiastical Council regarding Jehovah’s Witnesses
– 069 Ban of Jehovah’s Witnesses by the Prussian Minister of Internal Affairs (1933)
– 070 Reports from the German Secret State Police Office relating to Jehovah’s Witnesses
– 071 Courageous in the Face of Nazi Terror
– 072 Jehovah’s Witnesses – Victims Under Two Dictatorships
– 073 Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Nazi Period
– 074 Jehovah’s Witness Recalls Nazi Capture
– 075 Jehovah’s Witnesses and WW 2 (The Jewish Virtual Library)
+ 25 further volumes of high quality reference material (100 in total).
2. Video
– Over 40 hours of video presentations, documentaries, interviews and personal testimonies.
(MP4 format – Computer use only)
3. Audio
– 4 fascinating and informative audio presentations (mp3)
Max Leibster shortly before his death on May 28th, 2008.
4. Pictures
– A selection of photographs, posters and diagrams
5. Music
– Heart warming renditions of our Kingdom songs sung by concentration camp survivors (mp3)
Hopefully this Triple DVD ROM Collection will inspire and empower you as you watch with astonishment, the courage and conviction demonstrated by our dear brothers and sisters in Nazi occupied Europe … could we imitate their faith if faced with similar circumstances in the future?
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