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Facing the Lion reviews Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe Simone Arnold Liebster by Tanya Carr, Librarian, SoFacing the Lion review by Tanya Carruthwestern College, Chula Vista, California by Joy Moore, Davenport, IA by John S. Conway, University of British Columbia by Denise L. Baker, Esq. Fort Lauderdale,

Facing the Lion Review by Tanya Carr

Librarian, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe Simone Arnold Liebster Numerous memoirs of the Holocaust have been published with vivid, moving accounts of personal struggles. This one is no exception, but in Liebster’s memoir the reader witnesses experiences of the Holocaust through the

Crucible of Terror review by Sonia Pilcer, Author

A Story of Survival Through the Nazi Storm Max Liebster What makes Max Liebster’s memoir of survival in Nazi Germany so compelling is its sense of high moral purpose. Liebster witnesses the brutalizing perpetrators as well as those who gave him hope and saved his life. An important book in

Facing the Lion review by Midwest Book Review

Oregon, WI Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe Simone Arnold Liebster Simone Arnold and her family were devout members of the evangelical Christian movement known as Jehovah’s Witnesses and living in Nazi occupied Alsace-Lorraine during World War II. Like the Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Communists, and political liberals, the

Facing the Lion review by Joy Moore

, Davenport, IA Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe Simone Arnold Liebster This story takes a potent look at a disturbing time in history. It is the story of Nazi Germany told through the eyes of a little girl. Born into a loving and secure family, Simone Arnold’s

Crucible of Terror review by John Weiss

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York A Story of Survival Through the Nazi Storm Max Liebster Max Liebster’s account of his experience in the labor and death camps of the Nazis is an absorbing story of his despair and ultimate return to hope and faith through

Crucible of Terror review by John K. Roth

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

Facing the Lion review by John S. Conway

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

Facing the Lion review for H-Holocaust by Gillian McCann Ph.D. Candidate

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