QUESTION #2:FAITH PLAYED THE BIGGEST ROLE IN HELPING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY TO SURVIVE, BUT DID YOU ALSO RELY ON YOUR WITS OR SOMETHING MORE? To answer this question I will relate what happened to my mother on one occasion: Since Jehovah’s Witnesses were banned, they could not meet in large groups
QUESTION #4 :HOW DID YOU PERSONALLY REACT TOWARD THE SS GUARDS ? WERE THEY ALL VIOLENT ?HOW COULD PEOPLE BEHAVE THAT WAY ?IS THERE A LESSON TO BE LEARNED? The SS man who rescued me in Auschwitz once told me: “I feel like I’m on a runaway train going downhill.
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
His wife, his cousin Alfred and his family,the local congregation of Jehovah’s Witnessesand the Arnold Liebster Foundation announce with deep sadness that MAX LIEBSTER was gathered to his ancestors on Wednesday, May 28, 2008. Throughout his life, struggling for real life for 93 years, he never doubted the messianic prophecies.
“Home to the Reich” was the motto in Alsace in 1940. This meant that all National Socialist laws were also applied to Alsace. A year later, in September 1941 – I was 11 years old at the time – the doorbell rang. Mutti and I were expecting father back from