Helene Gotthold (31 December 1896 – 8 December 1944) was a
Jehovah's Witness
Jehovah's Witnesses is a Christian denomination that is an outgrowth of the Bible Student movement founded by Charles Taze Russell in the nineteenth century. The denomination is nontrinitarian, millenarian, and restorationist. Russell co- ...
who was guillotined by
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...
at
Plötzensee Prison
Plötzensee Prison (, JVA Plötzensee) is a men's prison in the Charlottenburg-Nord locality of Berlin with a capacity for 577 prisoners, operated by the State of Berlin judicial administration. The detention centre established in 1868 has a lon ...
. She was charged with giving asylum to men who refused to fight for the Nazis
and for holding illegal meetings for her faith.
References
Further reading
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External links
Holocaust Encyclopedia: Helene Gotthold United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Museums—Why Are They Worth a Visit? database w/images (https://wol.jw.org/ : accessed 27 Aug 2019) Watchtower Online Library "Awake" 8 Mar 2005 pages 14-19
*Blades, Dr.Larry professor at Highline Community College. Education Advisory Committee, Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center
STUDYING THE HOLOCAUST: RESISTANCE, RESCUE AND SURVIVAL 3 May 2005 (http://www.holocaustcenterseattle.org/ : accessed 27 Aug 2019) Holocaust Center for Humanity
German Jehovah's Witnesses
Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
German people executed by Nazi Germany
People executed by guillotine at Plötzensee Prison
Executed German women
1896 births
1944 deaths
Protestants in the German Resistance
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