Collection GB 1556 WL 1444 - Nazi persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses

Identity area

Reference code

GB 1556 WL 1444

Title

Nazi persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses

Date(s)

  • 1934-1963 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

1 file

Context area

Name of creator

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.

Repository

Archival history

GB 1556 WL 1444 1934-1963 collection 1 file Centro di Documentazione sui Bibelforscher

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.

Centro di Documentazione sui Bibelforscher

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.

Chronological by material type.

Open

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

German, French and Italian

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

Centro di Documentazione sui Bibelforscher.

Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

March 2008 Christian sects Civil and political rights Concentration camps Freedom of religion Freedom of thought Gestapo x Geheimes Staatspolizei Humanitarian law Human rights Jehovah's Witnesses Nazism Political doctrines Religions Religious sects Totalitarianism War crimes

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Centro di Documentazione sui Bibelforscher

Content and structure area

Scope and content

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.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Chronological by material type.

Conditions of access and use area

Conditions governing access

Open

Conditions governing reproduction

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

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

German, French and Italian

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

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

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Wiener Library

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Language(s)

  • English

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    Sources

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