Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0359 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0256įranz Wohlfahrt, born in 1920 in Velden am Wörthersee, Austria, describes growing up in a family of Jehovah's Witnesses the arrest of his father in 1936 for peddling in the street as part of his activities as a Jehovah’s Witness the German annexation of Austria in 1938 refusing to go to a Hitler Youth meetings and say the “Heil Hitler” greeting, which resulted in German troops monitoring his activities the execution of his father on Decemand his brother soon after because they refused to participate in the war and fight for the German state the general persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses during World War II since they would not worship Hitler agreeing to do work for the German state but not participate in military exercises, which resulted in his imprisonment in a dungeon for thirty-three days in 1940 being transferred to the Gestapo office in Graz for further questioning his deportation to a work camp at Allweiter Rodgau, in the Hessen-Nassau province, because he would not fight for the German state being saved by a camp commandant’s wife because he painted wall paper for her his liberation by Allied troops while he was still in the camp and returning home to find that few people he knew had survived.

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