Female Jehovah’s Witnesses from Germany

After Hitler’s coming into power in 1933, persecution of the Bible Students was intensified. They were among the first persons who were deported to the first concentration camps, such as that in Moringen, Germany. Many of them had already been incarcerated in concentration camps for years before they were transported to St. Lambrecht, a sub camp of Ravensbrück. The ten German women made up the largest national group in this small concentration camp.1It was not possible to compile a well-founded biography on all German female Jehovah’s Witnesses, as there was no data to be found for some of them.

Due to their years of incarceration, they were not acquainted with the then current position regarding the Biblical interpretation and about questions of doctrine. This led to a divergence of opinions in camp Ravensbrück among the Bible Students, principally because many of the Dutch Bible Students were considered ‘extreme’. In St. Lambrecht there were no interpretation problems, as none of the Bible Students there were involved in work associated directly or indirectly with the war industry.

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