Erfgoed van de Oorlog, Bystander Memories, interview RG-50.570.0009

The interviewee was born in Gouda and grew up in a non-religious family, but in the first years of the war she became an enthusiastic, fanatic, Jehova’s Witness. She realised even before the war that the Jews were about to be exterminated. She accepted suffering.

Together with her fellow believers she endured several concentration camps in the Netherlands and Germany. She doesn’t resent her enemies, and turned the camps into an opportunity to do missionary work, to convert people. Her story provides insight into what camp life was like for women, and what the situation was like for Jehova’s Witnesses during the war.

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