5.4 - Female Jehovah’s Witnesses from Austria

Female Jehovah’s Witnesses from Austria

Eighteen months after the Anschluss¹Annexation of Austria to the German Reich in March 1938. between Austria and Nazi Germany, Therese Schreiber from Vienna was caught and arrested by the Gestapo. She and Hedwig Hummel formed the smallest group but one in the women’s concentration camp at St. Lambrecht, and for two years they were deprived of their freedom and put into forced labour. The life stories of both Austrian women can be reconstructed relatively accurately.

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