![Elisabeth, Hans Werner, and Paul Gerhard Kusserow. [LCID: 68377]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/207d9ac9-711d-4b26-b397-d9ae92ce11f9.jpg)
Elisabeth, Hans Werner, and Paul Gerhard Kusserow. Because they were the children of Jehovah's Witnesses, all three were forcibly removed from school on March 7, 1939, and kept separated from their family, which was accused of spiritual and moral neglect, until their liberation in April 1945. This photograph was taken at the Kusserow home in Bad Lippspringe, 1936-1939.
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