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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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.&nbsp;

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