Holocaust world war 2 Survivor Jan Sliedrecht Van den Berg testimony coupled with real time historical testimony from Gaza holocaust world war 3

 

Jan Sliedrecht Van den Berg, holocaust survivor of Netherlands. My family background since the sixteenth century they were writers and wrote speeches for the churches, what they named “dark writers”. My parents were involved with the reformed church. 1934 my mother brought brochures from a pioneer of the Jehovah’s witnesses, they were preaching and placing literature. One title weighed heavily on my mind “Hell, Can you come out of it?” When Hitler invaded Poland I was in jail because I refused to go into the Dutch army. The first day the prison was bombed and the warden not knowing what to do said let them go, we’ll pick them up again if we need them. A man gave me a bicycle and I went village to village, everywhere were military police that checked everybody. Although in 1929 I served in the army before I was a Jehovah’s witness I was a soldier. In 1941 they searched my house and found literature, it was forbidden. I was again arrested and went by train to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, there were 11,000 prisoners there. Witnesses were isolated from the other camps so that they would not be able to talk to others. They used me for putting wallpapers in the SS officers houses. Of the 21 people that were gone to Sachsenhausen I’m the only one who came out of it, I was walking the edge of life and death. They took all the Russian soldiers outside in the night during winter, the majority were frozen, laying over the courtyard. Running away was impossible, doomed to fail, the road of death, they would kill you. Every morning we the brothers of Jehovah’s witness had a discussion of bible text. We kept each other strong spiritually. We smuggled literature and the bible. When the camp was evacuated we went together with the Witnesses. The commander put us with him on a wagon with a wooden box containing gold, diamonds, and watches. Because of the wagon Witnesses lives were saved, we put the ones who couldn’t walk on the wagon. We were the only ones who none of us died. At the end of the march were Canadian soldiers, the German soldiers had to thrown their weapons to the ground. All the Jehovah’s witnesses ran into the forest with the wagon, the SS officers ran after us. A commander from the German army came with a wagon to pick up the wooden box from us. We came out of the forest and Canadian soldiers received us. We killed an ox to feast and celebrate our freedom.

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