{"id":4964,"date":"2022-07-07T17:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T17:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alst.org\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2024-03-12T06:29:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:29:23","slug":"school-events-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/news\/school-events\/school-events-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"School Events 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Iowa Council for Social Studies Annual Conference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Exhibit \u201cJehovah\u2019s Witnesses &#8211; Faith Under Fire\u201d<br><\/strong>October 16 &#8211; 17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Illinois Council for Social Studies Annual Conference, Lisle, Illinois &#8211; USA<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Exhibit \u201cJehovah\u2019s Witnesses &#8211; Faith Under Fire\u201d<br><\/strong>September 29 &#8211; 30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">West Hartford, Connecticut &#8211; USA<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><\/strong>Skype conference with middle and high school students and Simone Liebster.<br>August 27<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">McKee Junior High School, Montgomery, Alabama &#8211; USA<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Skype conference with 9th grade students and Max and Simone Liebster.<br>May 17<br><a href=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/education\/oral-history-interviews\/education-educator-comments-2006\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4682\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&gt;&gt; Educator comment<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Martin-Springer Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona \u2013 USA<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 15, 2006 the Martin-Springer Institute, located at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, hosted a Teacher Workshop with the theme&nbsp;<em>Conscience and Conformity: The Resistance of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses in Nazi Germany,&nbsp;<\/em>and a Public Program entitled&nbsp;<em>Conscience and Conformity: The Price of Being Different in Nazi Germany<\/em>. A highlight of the Teacher Workshop was a Skype conference with Max and Simone Liebster from France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/education\/oral-history-interviews\/education-educator-comments-2006\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4682\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&gt;&gt; Educator comment<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teachers\u2019 Institute on Holocaust Study, Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities, Rock Island, Illinois \u2013 USA<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Exhibit \u201cJehovah\u2019s Witnesses &#8211; Faith Under Fire\u201d<br><\/strong>March 2 and 3 Indian Trails Public Library, Wheeling, Illinois &#8211; USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Exhibit \u201cJehovah\u2019s Witnesses &#8211; Faith Under Fire\u201d<br><\/strong>March 1-31<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust \u2013 USA<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Exhibit \u201cWho Am I? Young Minds Forced to Choose\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Sponsored by the Arnold-Liebster Foundation, this traveling exhibit premiered at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust on November 5, 2006, under the theme \u2018Other Victims&nbsp;of the Holocaust.&#8217; The exhibit examines the lives and experiences of young Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses who suffered due to their unwillingness to accept Nazi ideology&#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/news\/events-en\/who-am-i-young-minds-forced-to-choose\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3885\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&gt;&gt; more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/education\/oral-history-interviews\/education-educator-comments-2008\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4705\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&gt;&gt; Educator comment<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Moscow \u2013 Russia<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Official Release of the Russian translation of Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe, followed by an interview of author, Simone Arnold Liebster.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Russian translation&nbsp;of the book&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/pages-us\/books-us.html\"><\/a><em>Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe<\/em>&nbsp;by Simone&nbsp;Arnold Liebster (Osobaya Kniga Publishing-Moscow-2006) was presented May 25, 2006, in the House of Scientists. The editor, Dimitri Protsenko, discussed the uniqueness of the biography as seen through the eyes of a child &#8211; Simone Liebster&#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/news\/events-en\/release-of-russian-edition-of-facing-the-lion\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3880\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&gt;&gt; more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial \u2013 Germany<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The unveiling of a memorial stone and the reading of a letter written by Max Liebster<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/news\/events-en\/erection-of-a-memorial-to-the-prisoner-group-of-jehovahs-witnesses-at-the-concentration-camp-memorial-site-neuengamme\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3872\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Announcement<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/news\/events-en\/greetings-on-the-occasion-of-the-unveiling-of-a-monument-on-the-grounds-of-the-neuengamme-concentration-camp\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3875\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Letter from Max Liebster<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/news\/events-en\/newspaper-article-inauguration-memorial-concentration-camp-neuengamme\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3877\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cIt\u2019s our duty to remember!\u201d Article from the&nbsp;<em>Bergdorfer Zeitung<\/em>, a German newspaper, April 23, 2006<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Florida Holocaust Museum \u2013 USA<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Exhibition: &#8220;Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses &#8211; Faith Under Fire&#8221;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Sponsored by the Arnold-Liebster Foundation, this traveling exhibit premiered at the Florida Holocaust Museum on January 14, 2006. The exhibit chronicles the Nazi persecution of Jehovah&#8217;s Witness and the Witnesses&#8217; non-violent resistance to Nazi terror inside and outside the camps&#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/news\/events-en\/traveling-exhibit-faith-under-fire\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/news\/events-en\/traveling-exhibit-faith-under-fire\/\">&gt;&gt; more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/education\/oral-history-interviews\/education-educator-comments-2008\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4705\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&gt;&gt; Educator comment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa Council for Social Studies Annual Conference Exhibit \u201cJehovah\u2019s Witnesses &#8211; Faith Under Fire\u201dOctober 16 &#8211; 17 Illinois Council for Social Studies Annual Conference, Lisle, Illinois &#8211; USA Exhibit \u201cJehovah\u2019s Witnesses &#8211; Faith Under Fire\u201dSeptember 29 &#8211; 30 West Hartford, Connecticut &#8211; USA Skype conference with middle and high school students and Simone Liebster.August 27 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","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=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11284,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions\/11284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alst.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}