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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