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2022
London and Scarborough, United Kingdom
Videoconference with 34 students and 449 parents and members of the community and Simone Liebster.
July 29
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Video conference with 125 students, parents, members of the community and Simone Liebster.
July 22
Neuhofen, Germany
Interview with 20 students and Simone Liebster.
July 15
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Interview with 200 students and 165 parents and members of the community with Simone Liebster.
July 11
Duffield, Virginia - USA
Video conference with 220 students, parents, members of the community and Simone Liebster.
July 1
New Richmond, Wisconsin - USA
Video conference with 303 students, parents, members of the community and Simone Liebster.
June 24
Oregon and Maine, USA
Video conference with 74 students and 156 parents and members of the community with Simone Liebster.
June 13
Paris, France
Video conference with 79 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
June 6
Canadian Institute of English
Video conference with 186 students, teachers parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
June 3
Winterbourne Boys Academy, London - England
Video conference with 111 students, 8 teachers and staff, and Simone Liebster.
May 23
Napoleon Elementary School, Napoleon, Ohio - USA
Video conference with 140 6th grade students, teachers, and Simone Liebster.
May 19
Marysville, Washington - USA
Video conference with 279 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
May 16
BLE Academy Illinois - USA
Video conference with 250 students, teachers parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
May 10
Leesburg Elementary School, Leesburg, Indiana - USA
Video conference with 60 6th grade students and Simone Liebster.
May 3
Blumenstein School, Obersuhl, Germany
Video conference with 100 students and Simone Liebster.
April 28
Guarda, Portugal
Video conference with 200 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
April 25
United Kingdom, France, Spain and Portugal
Video conference with 298 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
April 18
Canadian Institute of English
Video conference with 502 students, teachers parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
April 8
Tokyo - Japan
Video conference with 818 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
March 31
Mittelpunktschule Gadernheim, Lautertal - Germany
Video conference with students and Simone Liebster.
March 25
Winterbourne Boys Academy, London - England
Video conference with 107 students, 8 teachers and staff, and Simone Liebster.
March 21
Tempe Prep Academy, Tempe, Arizona - USA
Video conference with 100 8th and 12th grade students, 15 faculty and staff members and Simone Liebster.
March 17
Davenport and Maquoketa Iowa - USA
Video conference with 131 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
March 14
St. Augustine, Florida - USA
Video conference with 262 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
March 11
New Jersey and Massachusetts - USA
Video conference with 152 Hindi and Haitian Creole students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
March 7
Cleveland, Ohio - USA
Video conference with 185 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
February 28
Wawasee Middle School, Syracuse, Indiana - USA
Video conference with 200 8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
February 25
Gilbert, Arizona - USA
Video conference with 166 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
February 21
Illinois, Washington and New York - USA
Video conference with 136 Romanian students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
February 14
Hainesport Township School, Hainesport, New Jersey - USA
Video conference with 20 8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
February 11
4th Aachen Comprehensive School, Germany
Interview with students and Simone Liebster.
January 27
2021
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Video conference with 164 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
December 27
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Video conference with 164 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
December 23
Corcoran, California - USA
Video conference with 158 Spanish students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
December 20
Rome, Italy
Video conference with 97 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
December 13
Little London International Academy, Voluntari, Romania
Video conference with high school students and Simone Liebster.
December 9
Salem, Oregon - USA
Video conference with 184 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
December 3
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada and Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Video conference with 126 Haitian Creole students from Massachusetts and students from Canada, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
November 25
Sioux Falls, South Dakota - USA
Video conference with 164 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
November 11
Fieldstone Middle School, Montvale, New Jersey - USA
Video conference with 8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
October 28
Canadian Institute of English
Video conference with 500 students and Simone Liebster.
October 22
Berlin, Germany
Video conference with 155 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
October 11
National Federation of the Blind of Indiana 2021 State Convention
The NFB of Indiana State Convention was held virtually on October 8-10 with the theme “Stronger Together.” Simone Liebster was a guest speaker on October 9 with the theme “A Power That Gives Strength” in which she related the experiences of her family who faced Nazi persecution as Jehovah”s Witnesses.
October 9
Cambodia
Video conference with 192 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
October 1
Ghana, West Africa
Video conference with 117 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
September 21
Folsom, California - USA
Video conference with 155 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
September 6
London, England
Video conference with 151 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
August 30
Drogheda, Ireland
Video conference with 170 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
August 27
St. Paul, Alberta - Canada and Murfreesboro, Tennessee - USA
Video conference with 123 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
August 24
Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii - USA
Video conference with 150 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
August 20
Queens, New York - USA
Video conference with 119 Chinese students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
August 13
Durham, North Carolina - USA
Video conference with 138 Spanish students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
August 6
Hobe Sound, Florida - USA
Video conference with 202 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
July 30
New Orleans, Louisiana - USA
Video conference with 129 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
July 27
Warwick, New York and Las Vegas, Nevada - USA
Video conference with 145 students, parents, members of the community and Simone Liebster.
July 20
Carlsbad, California - USA
Video conference with 253 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
July 16
New Britain, Connecticut and Traverse City, Michigan - USA
Video conference with 195 students, parents, members of the community and Simone Liebster.
July 13
Mystic, Connecticut - USA
Video conference with 168 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
July 9
Wallkill, New York - USA
Video conference with 68 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
July 5
Wewelsburg, Germany
Video conference with students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
July 1
Tucson, Arizona - USA
Video conference with 138 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
June 25
Carlsbad, California - USA
Video conference with 129 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
June 18
Albuquerque, New Mexico - USA
Video conference with 96 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
June 4
Alzey, Germany
Video conference with 208 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
May 28
Napoleon Elementary School, Napoleon, Ohio - USA
Video conference with 133 6th grade students, teachers, and Simone Liebster.
May 25
Vegreville, Alberta - Canada
Video conference with 242 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
May 24
Chicago, Illinois - USA
Video conference with 104 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
May 17
Scotland and Ohio - USA
Video conference with 134 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
May 10
Namibia, Africa
Video conference with 136 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
May 4
Hayesville Elementary School, Hayesville, NC - USA
Video conference with 70 5th grade students, teachers, and Simone Liebster.
April 29
Loganville Georgia - USA
Video conference with 152 students, parents, and members of the community and Simone Liebster, including 44 blind attendees from across the United States.
April 20
Elko, Nevada and Shoshone Reservation, Nevada - USA
Video conference with 233 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
April 16
Berlin, Germany
Video conference with 112 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
April 8
Panama and Georgia
Video conference with 180 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
April 2
Bowling Green, Kentucky and St. Louis, Missouri - USA
Video conference with 156 Serbo Croatian Bosnian and Roma students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
March 29
Fieldstone Middle School, Montvale, New Jersey - USA
Video conference with 8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
March 19
Fieldstone Middle School, Montvale, New Jersey - USA
Video conference with 5th grade students and Simone Liebster.
March 15
Lycée Jean Condorcet, Bordeaux - France
Video conference with English students and Simone Liebster.
March 12
Wawasee Middle School, Syracuse, Indiana - USA
Video conference with 175 8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
February 24
Davenport and Waterloo, Iowa and Galesburg, Illinois - USA, Ecuador and Puerto Rico
Video conference with 223 Spanish students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
January 31
Omaha, Nebraska and South Haven, Indiana - USA
Video conference with 227 Sign Language students, English students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
January 24
Apopka, Florida - USA
Video conference with 211 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
January 18
Wallkill, New York and Campbellsville, Kentucky - USA
Video conference with 142 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
January 8
Grenada, St. Vincent, and Barbados
Video conference with 169 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
January 1
2020
Petaluma, California - USA
Video conference with 227 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
December 25
Wallkill and Fishkill, New York and Duluth, Minnesota - USA
Video conference with 174 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
December 18
Baltimore, Maryland - USA
Video conference with 195 English and Korean students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
December 12
Jaipur Rajasthan, India
Video conference with 92 Sign Language students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
December 5
Sacramento, California and Franklin, North Carolina - USA
Video conference with 130 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
November 27
Trinidad, Tobago, and Guyana
Video conference with 167 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
November 20
Ventura, California - USA
Video conference with 72 students, parents, members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
November 13
Grand Prairie, Texas - USA
Video conference with 80 students, parents, and members of the community, and Simone Liebster.
October 24
Salt Lake City, Utah and Navajo Reservation, Arizona - USA
Video conference with 225 students, parents, and members of the community and Simone Liebster.
October 16
West Danbury, Connecticut - USA
Video conference with 79 students, parents, and members of the community and Simone Liebster.
October 11
Wallkill, New York - USA
Video conference with 130 students, parents, and members of the community and Simone Liebster.
September 7
Guam, Micronesia
Video conference with 197 students, parents, and members of the community and Simone Liebster.
September 4
Detroit Lakes, Minnesota - USA
Video conference with 169 students, parents, and members of the community and Simone Liebster.
August 28
Lake Forest Academy, Lake Forest, Illinois - USA
Video conference with foreign exchange students and Simone Liebster. The students were from China, Senegal, Poland, Vietnam, and Japan.
July 31
Moorhead, Minnesota - USA
Video conference with 177 students, parents, and members of the community and Simone Liebster.
July 24
Bangalore, India
Video conference with 144 students, parents, and members of the community and Simone Liebster.
July 9
Murphy, Texas - USA
Video conference with 40 students, parents, and members of the community and Simone Liebster.
July 3
Oak Lawn, Illinois - USA
Video conference with 121 students, parents, and members of the community and Simone Liebster.
June 29
Muscatine, Iowa - USA
Video conference with 112 students, parents, and members of the community and Simone Liebster.
June 22
Tuxedo Park, New York - USA
Video conference with 24 students and members of the community and Simone Liebster.
June 20
Tuxedo Park, New York - USA
Video conference with 30 students and members of the community and Simone Liebster.
June 6
Lakeview Fundamental Elementary School, St. Petersburg, Florida - USA
Video conference with 40 5th grade students, parents, faculty and Simone Liebster.
May 19
Tempe Prep Academy, Tempe, Arizona - USA
Video conference with 43 11th grade students, parents, faculty and Simone Liebster.
May 14
Tempe Prep Academy, Tempe, Arizona - USA
Video conference with 60 8th grade students, parents, faculty and Simone Liebster.
May 12
North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, Efland, North Carolina - USA
The Arnold-Liebster Foundation contributed classroom resources for the Teacher Workshop: Deadly Medicine: Nazi, American, and North Carolina Eugenics
March 9
Murphy Junior High School, Plainfield, Illinois - USA
Skype conference with 200 7th and 8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
March 9
Natrona Virtual School, Casper, Wyoming - USA
Skype conference with 18 5th-8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
March 3
Basalt Middle School, Basalt, Colorado - USA
Skype conference with 90 8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
February 28
North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, Lumberton, North Carolina - USA
The Arnold-Liebster Foundation contributed classroom resources for the Teacher Workshop: Historical and Contemporary Anti-Semitism
February 27
The Holocaust Museum & Cohen Education Center, Naples, Florida - USA
The Museum and Hodges University have partnered to present the 2020 Elliott Katz Lectures. “The Other Triangles: The Pink, the Purple and the Brown” lecture included a discussion of Jehovah’s Witnesses, designated by a purple triangle on their camp uniforms. In a recorded interview, Simone Arnold Liebster related the pressure she was put under to conform to Nazi laws, resulting in her arrest at the age of 12 and sentencing to a Nazi reeducation home.
February 20
Tuxedo Park, New York - USA
Skype conference with 24 students and Simone Liebster.
February 17
Martin County Fair, Stuart, Florida - USA
The Arnold-Liebster Foundation’s exhibit booth presented the history of the Nazi persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Handouts and classroom resources were provided for educators and students.
February 14-22
North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, Williamston, North Carolina - USA
The Arnold-Liebster Foundation contributed classroom resources for the Teacher Workshop: Why Teach About the Holocaust in 2020?
January 31
2019
Somers, New York - USA
Skype conference with 20 students and Simone Liebster.
December 28
Griffin, Georgia - USA
Skype conference with 16 students and Simone Liebster.
December 24
Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois - USA
Skype conference with 21 students and Simone Liebster.
November 7
Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois - USA
Jehovah’s Witnesses: Faith Under Fire is on exhibition from October 30, 2019 through November 27, 2019.
October 30
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Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois - USA
A program was held on October 30 at Seigle Auditorium in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, Jehovah’s Witnesses: Faith Under Fire. A presentation by Greg and Sandra Milakovich, US representatives for the Arnold-Liebster Foundation, gave an overview of the history of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Nazi Germany and concluded with an interview of Simone Arnold Liebster from her home in France via Skype.
October 30
Arizona Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference, Mesa, Arizona - USA
The conference theme was “Setting the Standard” and held at Mesa Community College. Exhibitors Kristin and Mike Walter shared historical and educator resources about the experience of Jehovah’s Witnesses during the Nazi era.
October 26
League City, Texas - USA
Skype conference with students and Simone Liebster.
October 25
Florida Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida
Educators gathered in Orlando for the 61st annual conference. Exhibitor Carol Confehr provided historical information and educator resources about the Nazi persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The Arnold-Liebster Foundation is on the Classroom Resource Links page of Florida Commissioner’s Task Force on Holocaust Education.
October 18-20
Wawasee Middle School, Syracuse, Indiana - USA
Skype conference with 189 8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
October 15
Ross Montessori School, Carbondale, Colorado - USA
Skype conference with 42 7th and 8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
September 24
Holland, Massachusetts - USA
Skype conference with students and Simone Liebster.
August 30
Rockford, Illinois - USA
Skype conference with students and Simone Liebster.
August 2
Lake Forest Academy, Lake Forest, Illinois - USA
Skype conference with 16 foreign exchange students and Simone Liebster. The students were from South Korea, China, Japan, and Ukraine.
July 30
Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies at Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina - USA
The 2019 Symposium on “Education During and After the Holocaust” took place on the Appalachian State University campus. The Arnold-Liebster Foundation contributed information and curriculum resources for educators about the Nazi persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
July 24
Wappingers Falls, New York - USA
Skype conference with students and Simone Liebster.
July 11
St. Petersburg, Florida - USA
Skype conference with middle and high school students and Simone Liebster.
June 8
Lakeview Fundamental Elementary School, St. Petersburg, Florida - USA
Skype conference with 65 5th grade students and Simone Liebster.
May 16
The Breman Museum, Atlanta, Georgia - USA
Who Am I? Young Minds Forced to Choose is on exhibition from May 15 - August 1.
May 15
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Woodland Lake Homeschool, Lakeside, Arizona - USA
Skype conference with 13 students and Simone Liebster.
May 10
Napoleon Elementary School, Napoleon, Ohio - USA
Two Skype conferences with 120 6th grade students and Simone Liebster.
May 6
New Iberia, Louisiana - USA
Skype conference with 16 students and Simone Liebster.
May 3
Union Intermediate School, Clinton, North Carolina - USA
Skype conference with 57 5th grade students and Simone Liebster.
April 29
Francis Granger Middle School, Aurora, Illinois - USA
Skype conference with 300 8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
April 26
Leesburg Elementary School, Leesburg, Indiana - USA
Skype conference with 60 6th grade students and Simone Liebster.
April 23
North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, Fayetteville, North Carolina USA
The Arnold-Liebster Foundation contributed classroom resources for the Teacher Workshop: History of the Holocaust and the North Carolina Connection.
April 18
Plano Middle School, Plano, Illinois - USA
Skype conference with 150 5th grade students and Simone Liebster.
April 12
North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, Marion, North Carolina - USA
The Arnold-Liebster contributed classroom resources for the Teacher Workshop: State of Deception: Propaganda in the Third Reich.
April 9
Highland High School, Highland, Illinois - USA
Skype conference with 16 10th-12th grade students and Simone Liebster.
April 8
A Chronicle of Hope—Revisiting the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Atlanta, Georgia - USA
A special event at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta marked the 25th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Dr. Tharcisse Seminega, a Tutsi professor at the University of Rwanda in Butare, and his family narrowly escaped the machetes. Charles Rutaganira, who lived in the capital Kigali, was left for dead in a heap of corpses but survived. These survivors told their stories and reflected on the genocide and the urgent message it conveys for citizens of the world today. Courtesy of the program sponsor, the Arnold-Liebster Foundation, attendees received gift copies of Dr. Seminega’s newly published memoir “No Greater Love: How My Family Survived the Genocide in Rwanda.”
April 4
Cramerton Middle School, Cramerton, North Carolina - USA
Skype conference with 150 7th grade students and Simone Liebster.
April 4
Cramerton Middle School, Cramerton, North Carolina - USA
Skype conference with 180 7th grade students and Simone Liebster.
April 2
Charlotte, North Carolina - USA
Skype conference with 28 students and Simone Liebster.
March 30
3rd Annual Rowan-Salisbury Schools Holocaust and World War ll Humanities Conference, Landis, North Carolina - USA
The conference was held at Corriher-Lipe Middle School. Simone Liebster spoke with 30 7th grade students.
March 27
Somers, New York - USA
Skype conference with 19 students and Simone Liebster.
March 25
West Central Middle School, Stronghurst, Illinois - USA
Skype conference with 25 7th and 8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
March 21
North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, Wilkesboro, North Carolina - USA
The Arnold-Liebster Foundation contributed classroom resources for the Teacher Workshop: Anti-Semitism.
March 18
Tempe Prep Academy, Tempe, Arizona - USA
Skype conference with 128 11th grade students and Simone Liebster.
March 18
North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, Cary, North Carolina - USA
The Arnold-Liebster Foundation contributed classroom resources for the Teacher Workshop: Oath and Opposition: Education Under the Third Reich.
March 15
Murphy Junior High School, Oswego, Illinois - USA
Two Skype conferences with 150 8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
March 15
Basalt Middle School, Basalt, Colorado - USA
Skype conference with 115 8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
March 11
Rock Falls High School, Rock Falls, Illinois - USA
Skype conference with 90 10th-12th grade students and Simone Liebster.
March 8
Chimacum Middle School, Chimacum, Washington - USA
Skype conference with 54 7th grade students and Simone Liebster.
March 4
Midway High School, Newton Grove, North Carolina - USA
Skype conference with 25 9th grade students and Simone Liebster.
March 1
Allen, Texas - USA
Skype conference with middle and high school students and Simone Liebster.
February 26
West Carroll Middle School, Mount Carroll, Illinois - USA
Skype conference with 80 8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
February 22
Martin County Fair, Stuart, Florida - USA
The Arnold-Liebster Foundation’s exhibit booth presented the history of the Nazi persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Handouts and classroom resources were provided for educators and students.
February 8-16
Illinois Council for the Social Studies, Bloomington, Illinois - USA
Illinois State University hosted the spring conference. A workshop by Marge Fulton and Gaye Flowers included first-person testimony by Simone Liebster, a child survivor of the Nazi era.
February 8
Skull Valley Elementary School, Skull Valley, Arizona - USA
Skype conference with 12 5th-8th grade students and Simone Liebster.
January 28
Silver Spring, Maryland - USA
Skype conference with 24 students and Simone Liebster.
January 19
Woodland Lake Homeschool, Lakeside, Arizona - USA
Skype conference with 10 students and Simone Liebster.
January 15
Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills, Michigan - USA
Jehovah's Witnesses: Faith Under Fire is on exhibition from January 13, 2019 through April 15, 2019.
January 13
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