In Buchenwald in 1995, Max Liebster found the very woodpile which he had sat behind…It is still there… As Max Liebster described it in his memoirs: I couldn’t bear to leave Fritz to face death alone. So side by side, we marched to the train tracks as ordered. The tracks terminated
May 9, 2002 Max Liebster, concentration camp survivor, showing the prisoner number tattooed on his left arm when he was in Auschwitz.
Reichenbach / Lautertal – Germany Max Liebster becomes an honorary citizen in his hometown.Excerpts from an article printed in the November 20, 2004 issue of the daily Bergstrasser Anzeiger. The new honorary citizen from Lautertal, Max Liebster (third from the left) with, from left to right, Mayor Jürgen Kaltwasser, Max’s wife, Simone
Grußwort von Max Liebster und Simone Arnold Liebster anlässlich der Sonderausstellung “Lila Winkel in Ravensbrück – Zeugen Jehovas (Bibelforscher) im Konzentrationslager: “Wir erachten es als ein Vorrecht, sie schriftlich begrüßen zu dürfen. Jahrelang durften wir als Zeitzeugen des Holocaust und der Verfolgung tätig sein, aber jetzt bringt das Alter Einschränkungen
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