Hearing on planned memorial to Jehovah’s Witnesses murdered under National Socialism

On Monday, May 22, 2023, at 11 a.m., the Ausschuss für Kultur und Medien considered the application for a memorial to Jehovah’s Witnesses persecuted and murdered under National Socialism. The session can be accessed in the Bundestag media center.

More information:

https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2023/kw21-pa-kultur-mahnmal-949012

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/geschichte-berlin-parlamentarier-wollen-mahnmal-fuer-zeugen-jehovas-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-230511-99-655570

Photo of Elisabeth Dopazo (née Fickert), 2023 (source: privately owned by Elisabeth Dopazo).

95-year-old witnesses Stolperstein laying – family helped Jewish neighbors

30. October 2024

On November 4, 2024, Elisabeth Dopazo (95) will experience the laying of Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in Sachsenburg for her, her brother and her parents. Although she herself was persecuted as a Jehovah’s Witness during the Nazi era, her family helped Jewish neighbors.

Photo of Emma Tiesel with granddaughter Johanna, 1954. (Source: private.)

First Stolperstein (stumbling stone) for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Schwerin

17. September 2024

Photo of the goldfish pond in Berlin-Tiergarten

Commemoration of the 91st anniversary of the ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses

12. June 2024