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2019
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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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
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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