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Claremont McKenna College A Story of Survival Through the Nazi Storm Max Liebster In heartbreaking detail, this memoir plunges its readers into the depths of the Holocaust’s darkness. In that darkness the human spirit did not triumph, but the testimony of survivors such as Max Liebster shows that resistance against

University of British Columbia Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe Simone Arnold Liebster This is one of a new series of memoirs written by members of theJehovah’s Witnesses sect, following the pattern set by their Jewishpartners in suffering. Liebster’s account of her youth in Alsace, andher persecution after

Religious Studies, University of Toronto Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe Simone Arnold Liebster Memoir of Resistance:Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Nazi Regime For anyone thinking seriously about the history of the Nazi occupation of Europe and the Holocaust, a single haunting question will most certainly occur: Would I

Esq. Fort Lauderdale, FL Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe Simone Arnold Liebster Facing the Lion is a memoir based on the experiences of a young girl living on the border of France and Germany in Nazi Europe during one of the greatest human rights crises in the

Co-Chairman, Holocaust Education Committee of Jewish Federation of Greater New Bedford, MA Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe Simone Arnold Liebster  “Facing the Lion” is a memoir of a young girl who grew up in the 1930s in Alsace, of a French-Catholic family. This unique story focuses on

San Antonio, TX Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe Simone Arnold Liebster I thoroughly enjoyed reading this well-written autobiography. I was captivated by every detail. Every emotion from rage to despair, from a jovial heart to the depth of sadness, was stirred within me. I have been deeply

Review of the book “Facing the Lion” for H-Holocaust by Gillian McCann Ph.D. Candidate, Religious Studies, University of Toronto: Memoir of Resistance:Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Nazi Regime For anyone thinking seriously about the history of the Nazi occupation of Europe and the Holocaust, a single haunting question will most certainly

A day in Buchenwald The sun is smilingAbove me the sky is brightBut inside, my heart is tight. How cruelly misplacedBird song seemsWhere thousands were killed. This is a place silence demandingWhere every smile must freeze,A place laughter forbidding. How much torment endured,How many lives lost?So carelessly taken … What