Persecuted Jews During Nazi Terror
Until now largely unknown, Jehovah’s Witnesses repeatedly took a stand against the prevailing antisemitism in society during the National Socialist era — providing help to those persecuted as Jews.
After years of meticulous research, Christoph Wilker has gathered compelling evidence and now presents a number of deeply moving individual accounts, including that of young Berliner Dagobert Lewin, who found shelter with a Jehovah’s Witness family in 1942.
His research sheds light on a dimension of civil resistance that had previously “gone unnoticed,” as Prof. Dr. Detlef Garbe emphasized at the book launch in Hamburg on January 24, 2024. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Benz wrote: “This book brings together accounts by Jehovah’s Witnesses that — long overdue — cast a bright light on a largely unknown aspect of aid to Jews and their rescue.” (Quoted from the foreword to the book)
Inge Deutschkron was hidden by Franz Gumz, a Jehovah’s Witness, and his wife Emma. She was one of many who owed her survival to the Gumz family.
Upcoming Book PresentationsBook Presentations
At the Jewish Museum Munich on July 26, 2022
With Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Benz, Dr. Sabine Schalm, Terry Swartzberg, and author Christoph Wilker
Christoph Wilker has been accompanying research and commemorative projects on the National Socialist era since the 1990s. In 2017/18, commissioned by Prof. Dr. Winfried Nerdinger and in coöperation with the NS‐Dokumentationszentrum Munich, he prepared a special exhibition on the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses, which was on display there from September 26, 2018 to January 6, 2019. He has published academic essays, several books, and documentary clips on the subject.
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