On March 31, 2024, concentration camp survivor Hermine Schmidt passed away at the age of 98. She was baptized as a Jehovah’s Witness in 1942 and was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943. In 1944, she was deported to the Stutthof concentration camp, where she had to witness indescribable atrocities.
Little London International Academy, Voluntari, Romania Video conference with 20 high school students and Simone Liebster.January 17 Aachen Comprehensive School, Germany Video conference with students and Simone Liebster.January 27 Hainesport Township School, Hainesport, New Jersey – USA Video conference with 22 students and teachers and Simone Liebster.February 11 Chicago, Illinois
The President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has awarded Simone Arnold-Liebster the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany as a token of gratitude for her commitment to preserving and passing on the memory of the tyranny of the National Socialists. The award rightly
On June 22, 2023, the German Bundestag unanimously approved the erection of a memorial to Jehovah’s Witnesses persecuted and murdered under National Socialism. The memorial is to be erected in Berlin’s Tiergarten, near the Goldfish Pond, by the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. It will consist of
On Monday, May 22, 2023, at 11 a.m., the Ausschuss für Kultur und Medien considered the application for a memorial to Jehovah’s Witnesses persecuted and murdered under National Socialism. The session can be accessed in the Bundestag media center. More information: https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2023/kw21-pa-kultur-mahnmal-949012 https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/geschichte-berlin-parlamentarier-wollen-mahnmal-fuer-zeugen-jehovas-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-230511-99-655570
On May 11, 2023, the Bundestag discussed in its first reading a monument for which the Arnold Liebster Foundation has been campaigning for many years: https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2023/kw19-de-mahnmal-zeugen-jehovas-945488 The debate can be accessed in the Bundestag media center. The verbatim transcript of the meeting can be found in the plenary minutes from
SHOOTING SPREE IN HAMBURG REQUIRES DILIGENCE IN REPORTING AND SOLIDARITY WITH THE ATTACKED JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES We stand with the Jehovah’s Witnesses who were attacked with brutal violence in their Hamburg congregation on the evening of March 9, 2023. We feel with the injured, with the mother of the murdered unborn
North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, Columbia, North Carolina – USA The Arnold-Liebster Foundation contributed educator resources for the Teacher Workshop: History of Anti-Semitism.November 29 North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, Lillington, North Carolina – USA The Arnold-Liebster Foundation contributed educator resources for the Teacher Workshop: Resistance.November 28 Northrop High
Lecture and discussion on the persecution and resistance of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Nazi-ruled Europe. Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 7 pm Topography of Terror, Auditorium, Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin Mit dem Laden des Videos akzeptieren Sie die Datenschutzerklärung von YouTube.Mehr erfahren Video laden YouTube immer entsperren On the subject The Christian
