Michaela Nannen, 6th Grade

2009-2010 Illinois Young Authors Contest, Pekin, Illinois

Michaela submitted an entry for the 2009-2010 Illinois Young Author’s Contest. Her short fiction story, The Forbidden Friendship, is seen through the eyes of a neighbor girl living across the street from young Simone Arnold’s house.
Washington Intermediate School, Pekin, Illinois

Read the The Forbidden Friendship

Photo of Elisabeth Dopazo (née Fickert), 2023 (source: privately owned by Elisabeth Dopazo).

95-year-old witnesses Stolperstein laying – family helped Jewish neighbors

30. October 2024

On November 4, 2024, Elisabeth Dopazo (95) will experience the laying of Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in Sachsenburg for her, her brother and her parents. Although she herself was persecuted as a Jehovah’s Witness during the Nazi era, her family helped Jewish neighbors.

Photo of Emma Tiesel with granddaughter Johanna, 1954. (Source: private.)

First Stolperstein (stumbling stone) for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Schwerin

17. September 2024

Photo of the goldfish pond in Berlin-Tiergarten

Commemoration of the 91st anniversary of the ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses

12. June 2024