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  • Introduction
  • 1 – History of Jehovah’s Witnesses
  • 2 – Female Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
  • 3 – The Monastery of St. Lambrecht
  • 4 – The Concentration Camp for Women at St. Lambrecht
  • 5 – The Women of St. Lambrecht: Their Life Stories
  • 6 – Trauma From the Past
  • 7 – Results
  • Additional Information
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Table of Contents

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  • All Chapters
  • Introduction
  • 1 - History of Jehovah’s Witnesses
  • 2 - Female Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
  • 3 - The Monastery of St. Lambrecht
  • 4 - The Concentration Camp for Women at St. Lambrecht
  • 5 - The Women of St. Lambrecht: Their Life Stories
  • 6 - Trauma From the Past
  • 7 - Results
  • Additional Information

Foreword

Acknowledgements and Word of Thanks

Introduction

Theme of Research

Sources

Oral History and its Significance

1.1 – On the Religious Community of Jehovah’s Witnesses

1.2 – Origins and Evolution of the Religious Community

1.3 – History of Persecution in Germany

1.4 – Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe

Besluit van de Gestapo in Wenen in 1941 waarin de activiteiten van de Bijbelonderzoekers verboden werden.

1.5 – Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Resistance

1.6 – Jehovah’s Witnesses in Concentration Camps

2.1 – The Situation of the Bible Students in Women’s Concentration Camp Ravensbrück

Een blik op het vrouwenconcentratiekamp Ravensbrück

2.2 – Situation and Organisation

2.3 – Training Facility for Female SS Guards

Gevangenen bij het werk in de tuinderij

2.4 – The Living Circumstances of Female Prisoners

3.1 – A Short Introduction to the History of the Monastery of St. Lambrecht and the Situation before the Anschluss in 1938

3.2 – Confiscation of the Monastery by the National Socialists and its Further Development into an SS Property

3.3 – The Administration Appointed by the Military Authorities

Emilio Viana (links), arts-gevangene Telesfer Jankowski (rechts)

3.4 – The Men’s Concentration Camp

4.01 – Setting up a Women’s Concentration Camp in the Monastery

4.02 – Transport of the Female Prisoners

4.03 – Camp Guard

4.04 – Structure of the Camp Community

4.05 – Accommodation and Hygiene

4.06 – Clothing

4.07 – Food

4.08 – Labour

4.09 – Illness and Care of the Sick

Naaikistje van Jans Hoogers-Elbertsen, 2001

4.10 – Contact with Other Social Groups

4.11 – Camp Punishment

4.12 – Religious activities

Voor schoonmaakwerkzaamheden werd om vier Bijbelonderzoeksters verzocht.

4.13 – Size of the Female Inmates’ Detail

4.14 – Liberation

4.15 – Travelling to the Various Native Countries

5.1 – Female Jehovah’s Witnesses from the Netherlands

5.1.1 – Petronella Katharina (Katja/Toos) Berkers-van Lierop

5.1.2 – Gerdina Huisman-Rabouw

5.1.3 – Jansje (Jans) Hoogers-Elbertsen

5.1.4 – Corstiaantje (Sjaan) Pronk-van den Oever

5.1.5 – Froukje Volp-Rinzema

5.2 Female Jehovah’s Witness from Belgium

5.2.1 – Maria Floryn-Hernalsteen

5.3 – Female Jehovah’s Witnesses from Germany

5.3.01 – Alwine Blöbaum-Schlomann

5.3.02 – Ella Hempel-Zippel

5.3.03 – Franziska Herold-Ziegler

5.3.04 – Helene Leopold

5.3.05 – Anna Schädlich

5.3.06 – Emma Schüler

Paula Uhlig met echtgenoot (datum foto onbekend)

5.3.07 – Paula Johanna Auerbach-Uhlig

5.3.08 – Ella Ulbrich

5.3.09 – Magdalena Willibald-Sedlmeier

5.3.10 – Meta Klara Winkler

5.4 – Female Jehovah’s Witnesses from Austria

5.4.1 – Hedwig Hummel-Weninger

5.4.2 – Therese Schreiber

5.5 – Female Jehovah’s Witnesses from Poland

5.5.1 – Anna Czudek

5.5.2 – Antonia Kurcewski

5.5.3 – Febronia Makurat

5.5.4 – Elisabeth (Lisbeth) Schütt

5.5.5 – Paula (Paulina) Wölfle

6.01 – Views on Traumatisation Resulting from Concentration Camps

6.02 – Historical Review

6.03 – The Concept of Trauma

6.04 The Psychoanalytical View of Traumas Arising from Incarceration in a Concentration Camp

6.05 Stages of Traumatisation

6.06 Survival Strategies During Acute Traumatisation

6.07 The Theory of Trauma

6.08 Features of Trauma

6.09 Processing a Trauma – Effect of Trauma in the Long-term

6.10 Biochemical Model Explaining Trauma Process

7 – Results

Consulted Archives

Bibliography

Abbreviations

The author

Thanks

Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 - History of Jehovah’s Witnesses
  • 2 - Female Jehovah's Witnesses in the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
  • 3 - The Monastery of St. Lambrecht
  • 4 - The Concentration Camp for Women at St. Lambrecht
  • 5 - The Women of St. Lambrecht: Their Life Stories
  • 6 - Trauma from the Past
  • 7 - Results
  • Additional Information
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In May 1943, a women’s concentration camp was founded in the confiscated Benedictine monastery of St. Lambrecht. In this sub camp of the concentration camps Ravensbrück and Mauthausen, 23 Bible Students were forced to perform hard labour. For the women who came from Austria, Germany, Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands, this SS work camp was the last station of a long odyssey through several concentration camps of the Third Reich. Anita Farkas reconstructed the history of the St. Lambrecht women’s concentration camp, including the life stories of the women who were persecuted there for religious reasons.

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