Born: December 31, Helene lived in Herne and Bochum in western Germany, where she was married to a coal miner who was unemployed between and Following their disillusionment with the Lutheran Church during World War I, Helene, who was a nurse, and her husband became Jehovah's Witnesses in Together, they raised their two children according to the teachings of the Scripture.
Some of the Gottholds' neighbors refused to have anything to do with them. Helene's husband was arrested in After searching her house, the Gestapo arrested her in ; she was beaten with rods and lost her unborn baby.
The court gave her an month sentence. Helene and her husband were rearrested in February They were imprisoned in Essen, but when the prison was destroyed in an Allied bombing raid, they were transferred to a prison in Potsdam. On August 4, the People's Court sentenced Helene and five other Witnesses to death for illegally holding Bible meetings and undermining the nation's morale. Before her execution, Helene was allowed to write a letter to her husband and children. Helene was executed by guillotine in Berlin's Ploetzensee Prison on December 8, Her family survived and resumed their Jehovah's Witness missionary work in Germany.
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