Katie North, 8th grade

National History Day 2018 Competition
Theme: Conflict and Compromise in History
First Place State Junior Individual Performance
“Hildegard Kusserow: Jehovah’s Witnesses Refuse to Compromise During the Conflict of the Holocaust”
April 28, 2018
Katie North, 8th Grade
St. Clair Junior High, St. Clair, MO
Gifted Education Teacher: Jennifer Hawkins

Photo of Elisabeth Dopazo (née Fickert), 2023 (source: privately owned by Elisabeth Dopazo).

95-year-old witnesses Stolperstein laying – family helped Jewish neighbors

30. October 2024

On November 4, 2024, Elisabeth Dopazo (95) will experience the laying of Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in Sachsenburg for her, her brother and her parents. Although she herself was persecuted as a Jehovah’s Witness during the Nazi era, her family helped Jewish neighbors.

Photo of Emma Tiesel with granddaughter Johanna, 1954. (Source: private.)

First Stolperstein (stumbling stone) for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Schwerin

17. September 2024

Photo of the goldfish pond in Berlin-Tiergarten

Commemoration of the 91st anniversary of the ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses

12. June 2024