Hildegard Kusserow

Hildegard 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, Hildegard spent four years in concentration camps for practicing her religion and refusing to take an oath of allegiance to Hitler. She was liberated from Ravensbrück, along with her mother and sister Magdalena, while on a death march in 1945. Her entire family was persecuted during the war, with most being imprisoned, sent to concentration camps, and/or executed.