Annemarie Kusserow

Annemarie Kusserow was a German adherent of the Jehovah's Witnesses who was persecuted for her faith during the Nazi regime. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Annemarie spent nine months in a Berlin prison for practicing her religion and refusing to take an oath of allegiance to Hitler. She was released in 1945. Her entire family was persecuted during the war, with most being imprisoned, sent to concentration camps, and/or executed.