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Nazi persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1444

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Nazi persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses

Date(s): 1934-1963

Level of description: collection

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Centro di Documentazione sui Bibelforscher

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Centro di Documentazione sui Bibelforscher, Centre for the Documentaion of Jehovah's Witnesses, is based in Italy and has no affiliation to any religious denomination.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers regarding the fate of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Nazi era, 1934-1963, include copies of forms with personal details of concentration camp inmates; verdicts in Nazi court cases relating to refusal to bear arms; lists of concentration camp inmates; Gestapo correspondence and testimonies of Jehovah's Witnesses.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: German, French and Italian

System of arrangement:

Chronological by material type.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Centro di Documentazione sui Bibelforscher

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Centro di Documentazione sui Bibelforscher.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.