This photo was taken in the Watchtower building 25 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn, NY. This was in a display called “A People for Jehovah’s Name: Archives.” This is a special display that tells the history of Jehovah’s Witnesses from the late 1800’s to the present.
This is commemorating the Jehovah’s Witnesses that were imprisoned in Nazi Germany. This was the clothes that the Witnesses would wear in the camps and you can see the little purple triangle. The purple triangle identified these people as Jehovah’s Witnesses as the yellow star identified other prisoners as Jewish. This group of people are being commemorated because of the sacrifice and time spent in the concentration camps. This group was imprisoned because they refused to swear allegiance to Adolf Hitler and fight for him because of their stance they were impressed. After the Jewish group Jehovah’s witnesses were the second largest group of people imprisoned in these camps. They are being commemorated for their brave stance not to give into Hitler’s evil regime.
This truly moved me when I saw it. In addition to having the uniform in the Archives, there were also personal stories of real survivors and a life sized remake of what the cells they were locked in looked like. It really made me put myself in these people’s shoes and realized the amazing faith that they displayed (a lot of them relayed that it was their faith in their God, Jehovah that kept them going their time in the camps). It is wonderful that they were able to tell their story because of the bravery that they and faith they showed, and it strengthened my own faith when I saw it.
