[BroJoeK]

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January 29, 1943:

• "A Nazi court in Kraków, Poland, sentences five Poles to death for aiding Jews.
  One of the accused, Kazimierz Jozefek, is hanged in the public square."

"Religious conviction led many Jehovah's Witnesses to shun obedience to the Nazi government.
In the dark days of the war in 1943, office worker Mary Smigiel, seen here, became a Jehovah's Witness in Gdynia, Poland.
Believing that only Jehovah was to be praised and honored, Smigiel refused her German boss's demand that she type "Heil Hitler" on all correspondence.
Her disobedience was reported, and she was sent to the Stutthof, Poland, labor camp.
She survived the war, married, and eventually settled in the United States."

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[Tax-chick]

Good story.

[fso301]

"Religious conviction led many Jehovah's Witnesses to shun obedience to the Nazi government.

Of the groups of people having a choice in the matter, Jehovah's Witnesses voluntarily suffered Nazi persecution in the highest percentages. I don't agree with all their religious views but I sure respect them for the way they stood up to Hitler.