Jehovah s Witnesses containing report for the service year of

216 Yearbook
placed three bound books, two of these with a nurse,
and nineteen magazines. Yes, this brother spent a very
happy time in his confined territory assignment. Really
those who choose to serve Jehovah are not cramped
beyond movement in the most confined places on this
earth.
The back·call and Bible study work deserves our
fullest support. The more one engages in the Kingdom
ministry the more one appreciates this. During World
War II a young Russian girl came to be a prisoner of
war and was carried off by the Gestapo to a concentration
camp and made to perform forced labor. Her work
was to complete bombs after the fuses had been inserted.
She was only eighteen, but knew that these
bombs would be killing many people-perhaps her own
family-so she secretly took the fuses out of over 800
bombs. She was caught defusing the last eight and was
sentenced to hang on May 10. However, on May 9 the
American troops liberated the camp. Knowing several
languages, she was used as an interpreter by the U.S.
officials during the Nuremberg trials. After that she
came to the United States and was married to a U.S. air
force officer. It was in the United States that she obtained
a copy of the first edition of "Let God Be True".
However, she put it away and since the publisher who
placed the book never did return to make a back-call
her initial interest was allowed to die out. She then
moved with her husband from base to base and although
they could take a very limited number of books
with them she always took along "Let God Be True".
It went to various places in the United States, then to
Germany and back. They were assigned next to St.
John's, Newfoundland, and it was there she was invited
to attend a Bible study conducted with the book "Let
God Be True". Seeing the book, she told the story of
her book and she immediately arranged to attend the
Bible study regularly. She is making good progress and
is now doing a great deal of incidental preaching. She
feels it must have been Jehovah who preserved her
through those war years so that she could learn the
truth. She wants all members of the New World society
to remember her experience and make sure that they
follow up all placements rather than make the people
with whom they place literature wait about eight years
before they make a back-call.
NEW ZEALAND
The ministers of the Kingdom in New Zealand
have enjoyed the past year greatly. They have