{"id":11970,"date":"2023-05-11T13:53:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alst.org\/uncategorized\/memorial-for-the-jehovahs-witnesses-persecuted-and-murdered-under-national-socialism-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T06:30:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:30:32","slug":"memorial-for-the-jehovahs-witnesses-persecuted-and-murdered-under-national-socialism-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/news\/events-en\/memorial-for-the-jehovahs-witnesses-persecuted-and-murdered-under-national-socialism-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial for the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses persecuted and murdered under National Socialism in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Befreiung_Mauthausen-1024x512.jpeg\" alt=\"Liberation of imprisoned Jehovah's Witnesses from Mauthausen concentration camp (Jehovah's Witnesses archive)\" class=\"wp-image-11945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Befreiung_Mauthausen-1024x512.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Befreiung_Mauthausen-300x150.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Befreiung_Mauthausen-354x177.jpeg 354w, https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Befreiung_Mauthausen-768x384.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Befreiung_Mauthausen.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Liberation of imprisoned Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses from Mauthausen concentration camp (Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses archive)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>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: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/dokumente\/textarchiv\/2023\/kw19-de-mahnmal-zeugen-jehovas-945488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/dokumente\/textarchiv\/2023\/kw19-de-mahnmal-zeugen-jehovas-945488<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The debate can be accessed in the Bundestag <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/mediathek?videoid=7554003#url=L21lZGlhdGhla292ZXJsYXk\/dmlkZW9pZD03NTU0MDAz&amp;mod=mediathek\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bundestag.de\/mediathek?videoid=7554003#url=L21lZGlhdGhla292ZXJsYXk\/dmlkZW9pZD03NTU0MDAz&amp;mod=mediathek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">media center<\/a>. The verbatim transcript of the meeting can be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btp\/20\/20103.pdf#nameddest=P.12529\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dserver.bundestag.de\/btp\/20\/20103.pdf#nameddest=P.12529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">plenary minutes<\/a> from page 12529 under agenda item 19 (Mahnmal f\u00fcr die im Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und ermordeten Zeugen Jehovas).<\/p>\n\n<p>More information about the planned memorial:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Benz_Website.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wolfgang Benz: Zeugen Jehovas das Gedenken nicht verweigern (Tagesspiegel)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/WBenz_Denkmal_GVFD-Magazin_112-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Denkmal f\u00fcr den Widerstand der Zeugen Jehovas (GVFD-Magazin 112-2022)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 page 12529 under agenda item [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-en","category-memorial-to-the-persecuted-and-murdered-jehovahs-witnesses-in-europe-under-national-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11970"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13384,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11970\/revisions\/13384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}