This memorial to Max Liebster, honorary citizen of Reichenbach, should remind us of all who have suffered unjustly under the National Socialist regime, and stimulate us to think about our own values and goals. Memorial to Max Liebster in Reichenbach
The Danner Family The Danner family lived at No. 3, Rue des Seigneur in Lower Yutz, Moselle, France. The father, Jacques Danner (nicknamed Jacob) was born on March 22, 1898 in Rohrbach and worked as a laborer at the blast furnaces. He married Augustine Rosine Hantz, born on February 25,
On a frigid winter day in 1941, a transport truck left Schirmeck for Dachau concentration camp. Among the five Jehovah’s Witness prisoners were Adolphe and the elderly presiding minister of Mulhouse named Huber. An SS guard looked at the white-haired man, pointed to the crematorium chimney, and screamed, “This will
Born in Schalkmühle, Westphalia, Germany, Wilhelm Töllner and his wife, Klara, were both imprisoned for possessing and distributing Bible literature. They lost custody of their two children, Ruth and Wilhelm, Jr. A special court in Hannover sentenced Töllner to one year in prison in 1936. In December 1937, he was
Marcel Sutter was born on 3 January 1919 in Mulhouse, Alsace. This brilliant young man was studying electrotechnics to become an engineer when World War II broke out forcing him to stop his training. He joined the French army and was demobilized in 1940 when Alsace was annexed into Germany. On
Born on April 22, 1928, in Lützen (near Leipzig), Lothar Hörnig endured persecution under two successive German dictatorships : the Nazis and the Communists. His parents were “Bibelforscher” (Jehovah’s Witnesses) and worked hard in their small family-run bakery to provide for their six children. Immediately after Hitler’s rise to power
Josef Niklasch was born on September 17, 1918 in Sternberg (in the former Sudetenland). In 1932, at the age of 14 he came in contact with the Bible Students, or Jehovah’s Witnesses as they were known from 1931. From 1935 he worked as a typesetter in the branch office of
Hermann Schmidt was born on July 14, 1898 exactly three months to the day before his wife Frieda was born. Together they had a small business in Schriebendorf, a small town near Brieg, in Silesia, Germany. Today it is called Miedzylesie-zamek and is located in southwest Poland, near the Czech border. The Schmidt
Georg, the son of Hermann and Frieda Schmidt was born on January 2, 1925 in Schreibendorf, near Brieg in Silesia. His sister Hanna saw this world on December, 12 1926. Their childhood was happy until about 1935. They had lots of fun growing up and helping in the market-garden. Yet,
