Oldest known 大破壊/大虐殺 生存者 who 辞退するd to give up his Jehovah's 証言,証人/目撃する 約束 dies 老年の 107

  • It has been 確認するd that Leopold Engleitner died 老年の 107 on April 21
  • He was 逮捕(する)d with a group of Jehovah's 証言,証人/目撃するs in Austria in 1939
  • にもかかわらず 存在 申し込む/申し出d 解放(する) he 辞退するd to give up his 約束
  • 生き残るd three 集中 (軍の)野営地,陣営s and years of slave 労働
  • His life story is told in the 調書をとる/予約する and film '無傷の Will', 主要な to a 一連の 小旅行するs of the US and Europe
One of the oldest surviving holocaust survivors Leopold Engleitner died this month aged 107

One of the oldest 生き残るing 大破壊/大虐殺 生存者s Leopold Engleitner died this month 老年の 107

One of the oldest known 生存者s of the 大破壊/大虐殺 who 辞退するd to 放棄する his 約束 has died 老年の 107.?

Leopold Engleitner died on April 21 によれば the Mauthausen 委員会, an Austrian organization that 跡をつけるs the 運命/宿命 of Nazi 集中 (軍の)野営地,陣営 inmates.

After 辞退するing to give up his 約束 as a Jehovah's 証言,証人/目撃する, he 生き残るd three 集中 (軍の)野営地,陣営s and 軍隊d labor between 1939 and 1945.

Engleitner was born in Aigen-Voglhub, Austria, in 1905 but grew up in the city of Bad Ischl.

He became a Jehovah's 証言,証人/目撃する in 1932 after 熟考する/考慮するing the bible for many years and 直面するd 宗教的な intolerance even before the war began.

He was 逮捕(する)d in April 1939 with other 証言,証人/目撃するs during a 宗教的な 祝賀, and four months later was transferred to Buchenwald 集中 (軍の)野営地,陣営.

Two years later, Engleitner was held at Niederhagen 集中 (軍の)野営地,陣営 in Wewelsburg, Germany.

He was 申し込む/申し出d 解放(する) if he agreed to 放棄する his beliefs, but he 辞退するd 説 he lived by God's word.

Instead, he was transferred to Ravensbruek.

He 重さを計るd just 28 キログラムs - about 60 続けざまに猛撃するs - on 解放(する) from the Ravensbrueck (軍の)野営地,陣営 in 1943 after he agreed to work as farm slave 労働者.

He was later ordered to 報告(する)/憶測 to Hitler's army, but Engleitner hid in the Tyrolean countryside until after the war ended.

Engleitner was first sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp (pictured in 1945) after he refused to renounce his faith as a Jehovah's Witness

Engleitner was first sent to Buchenwald 集中 (軍の)野営地,陣営 (pictured in 1945) after he 辞退するd to 放棄する his 約束 as a Jehovah's 証言,証人/目撃する

Engleitner was arrested with a group of Jehovah's Witnesses after the German invasion of Austria (pictured) in 1938

Engleitner was 逮捕(する)d with a group of Jehovah's 証言,証人/目撃するs after the German 侵略 of Austria (pictured) in 1938

Engleitner was able to return home on May 5 1945, but continued to work in slave 労働 on a farm in St Wolfgang.

にもかかわらず the end of the war, when he 試みる/企てるd to leave the farm in 1946, he was told by the 労働 bureau of Bad Ischl that < /font>his slave labor 義務 from the Nazi 占領/職業 was still valid.

He was finally 解放(する)d from that 義務 in April 1946 when the US army 介入するd.

Engleitner's life was 文書d in the 調書をとる/予約する and film '無傷の Will' by Austrian film-製造者 and author Bernhard Rammerstorfer.

A memorial for both those who survived and those who didn't at Buchenwald Concentration Camp in 2010

A 記念の for both those who 生き残るd and those who didn't at Buchenwald 集中 (軍の)野営地,陣営 in 2010

As a result he 小旅行するd Europe and across America three times to 株 his experiences.

In 2003, he was awarded the 'Silver Order of 長所 of the 州 of Upper Austria' by the Upper Austrian 知事 Josef P?hringer.

He has also received a (犯罪の)一味 of Honour of the town of Bad Ischl and a Badge of Honour from the town of St Wolfgang.

The oldest known 生存者 of the (軍の)野営地,陣営s is Alice Herz-Sommer, 109, who lives in London. She was 限定するd in the (軍の)野営地,陣営 in Terezin, or Theresienstadt in German.

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