Purple triangle

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The purple triangle was a Nazi concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify religious prisoners, the Jehovah's Witnesses (Bibelforscher). Unlike the Jews, for whom religion was hereditary, Jehovah's Witnesses had the option to escape the camps by a simple renunciation of their faith. However, few chose this route and thousands perished alongside their fellow Jewish prisoners rather than betray their faith.

[edit] External links

• Purple Triangles: A Story of Spiritual Resistance by Jolene Chu, originally published in Judaism Today, No. 12, Spring 1999
• Purple Triangle: An Untold Story of the Holocaust
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Sustained Through Terrible Trials by Éva Josefsson, The Watchtower June 1, 1998
• Jehovah's Witnesses: Courageous in the Face of Nazi Peril, Awake! July 8, 1998
• They Triumphed Over Persecution, The Watchtower March 1, 2003

[edit] References

Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (Distributor). (1991). Purple Triangles [VHS]. United States of America: Starlock Pictures.