Purple Triangle Journal

The Nazi regime divided concentration camp prisoners into specific categories, reflected visually by colored, triangular patches sewn into their uniforms. Non-German prisoners were further identified by the initial of their nationality stamped onto the patch. 

Jehovah’s Witnesses, or Zeugen Jehovahs in German, were persecuted by the Nazi regime because of their ties to the United States, their unwillingness to join the German Army, and their refusal to give an oath to Hitler. 

Thousands were rounded up and sent to concentration and labor camps. An estimated 1,000 out of a total population of 20,000 were murdered in concentration camps or sentenced to death by military courts for refusing to serve in the German Army. 

Remember the thousands persecuted with this five-by-eight-inch lined journal with pen holder.