{"id":4262,"date":"2022-07-03T06:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T06:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alst.org\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2024-03-12T06:29:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:29:28","slug":"a-hidden-source-of-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/documents\/exhibits\/a-hidden-source-of-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hidden Source Of Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This tiny Bible measures 3.5\u201d x 5\u201d and is 1\u201d thick. The Leander van Ess Catholic version of the Bible contained only the Christian Greek Scriptures and the Psalms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hidden by her mother in a sewing box with a false bottom, it traveled with 12-year old Simone Arnold when she was  ordered to report to Wessenberg Reformatory for Girls in Germany in 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her memoir Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi  Europe, <\/em>Simone relates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

” Cleaning day after day under Fr\u00e4ulein Messinger\u2019s bed, I got an idea: I would hide my little Bible in the springs. At first I hesitated out of fear. It meant I had to empty my sewing box totally in order to take the Bible out . . .My little book ended up in the springs in the middle of Fr\u00e4ulein Messinger\u2019s bed . . . Regular Bible reading eased my inner feelings. I regained confidence in my hopes for the  future. Far away I was creating, building, planning in a peaceful  paradise world…”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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