Wilhelm Coenraad Laros papers
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Wilhelm C. Laros
Biographical History
Wilhelm Laros was born June 9, 1902, in Delft, Netherlands. Laros became affiliated with the Jehovah's Witnesses as a youth and became an active leader. He later was arrested by the Germans for his religious beliefs, interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and released from that camp after 4 1/2 years. Laros presently resides in Delft.
Archival History
Wilhelm C. Laros
Acquisition
The materials were collected by Wilhelm Laros during and after the Holocaust. The Laros papers were initially donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. via Robert Buckley. They were transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives by Holly Snyder of the Oral History Department on June 12, 1991.
Scope and Content
Consists of copies of a testimony and other materials relating to Wilhelm C. Laros and Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust. Among the topics mentioned are concentration camps, death marches, and activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in Europe before, during, and after the Holocaust.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Laros, Wilhelm Coenraad.
Corporate Bodies
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
- Oranienburg (Concentration camp)
- Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡
Subjects
- Death marches.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Jehovah's Witnesses--Nazi persecution.
- Delft (Netherlands)
- Concentration camp tattoos.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Hague (Netherlands)
- Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)
Genre
- Photographs.
- Personal narratives.
- Document