During the 2009 school year tenth-grade students from Northrop High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana asked Leopold Engleitner the following question regarding his personal experiences during the Holocaust. Question : Why didn’t you just sign the paper and go behind their backs to practice your religion? If you had signed
QUESTION :WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST SIGN THE PAPER AND GO BEHIND THEIR BACKS TO PRACTICE YOUR RELIGION? IF YOU HAD SIGNED THE DECLARATION, YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN FREE AND LIVED WITHOUT A LIFE OF TERROR? That is an interesting question and I thank you for bringing up this point. First
QUESTION :HOW DID GOING THROUGH THE HOLOCAUST CHANGE YOUR VIEWS ON LIFE, AND HAS IT AFFECTED YOUR LIFE NOW? DO YOU BELIEVE YOU WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF THIS EVENT HAD NOT HAPPENED? I was 11 years old when the Nazis occupied Poland, where I was born. At the age of
During the 2009 school year tenth-grade students from Northrop High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana asked Joseph Kempler the following question regarding his personal experiences during the Holocaust. Question : How did going through the holocaust change your views on life, and has it affected your life now? do you
During the 2009 school year tenth-grade students from Northrop High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana asked Anna Denz Turpin the following question regarding her personal experiences during the Holocaust. Question : How did you and your family keep your faith? When your friends and loved ones were dying, was it
QUESTION :How did you and your family keep your faith? When your friends and loved ones were dying, was it hard at times to keep your faith and stay strong and brave? Every morning my mom brought in a Bible and before Dad left for work, our family would read
Marcel Sutter met the Arnold family when he was 22 years old, after his studies to become an engineer were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. Within a short time he became a brother, friend, teacher, and role model for 11-year old Simone. Whenever he visited, he would
>>> Download Visitor Information <<< Peter Esch was born in Germany in 1896. He was imprisoned by the Nazi government from 1938 to 1945 for being one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. In 1944, Mina Esch received a postcard from her husband Peter, in the Buchenwald concentration camp. His handwritten message in
Anna Maria Denz lived with her husband, Oskar, and their daughter, Anna, in Lörrach, Germany. They were active in dangerous underground resistance efforts to smuggle Bible literature from Switzerland into Germany. They also smuggled reports of Nazi atrocities into Switzerland. On February 2, 1938, border guards discovered the hidden literature and