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School Events 2006

Iowa Council for Social Studies Annual Conference

Exhibit “Jehovah’s Witnesses – Faith Under Fire”
October 16 – 17

Illinois Council for Social Studies Annual Conference, Lisle, Illinois – USA

Exhibit “Jehovah’s Witnesses – Faith Under Fire”
September 29 – 30

West Hartford, Connecticut – USA

Skype conference with middle and high school students and Simone Liebster.
August 27

McKee Junior High School, Montgomery, Alabama – USA

Skype conference with 9th grade students and Max and Simone Liebster.
May 17
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Martin-Springer Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona – USA

On March 15, 2006 the Martin-Springer Institute, located at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, hosted a Teacher Workshop with the theme Conscience and Conformity: The Resistance of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Nazi Germany, and a Public Program entitled Conscience and Conformity: The Price of Being Different in Nazi Germany. A highlight of the Teacher Workshop was a Skype conference with Max and Simone Liebster from France.

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Teachers’ Institute on Holocaust Study, Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities, Rock Island, Illinois – USA

Exhibit “Jehovah’s Witnesses – Faith Under Fire”
March 2 and 3 Indian Trails Public Library, Wheeling, Illinois – USA

Exhibit “Jehovah’s Witnesses – Faith Under Fire”
March 1-31

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust – USA

Exhibit “Who Am I? Young Minds Forced to Choose”

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 ‘Other Victims of the Holocaust.’ The exhibit examines the lives and experiences of young Jehovah’s Witnesses who suffered due to their unwillingness to accept Nazi ideology… >> more

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Moscow – Russia

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.

The Russian translation of the book Facing the Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe by Simone 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 – Simone Liebster… >> more

Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial – Germany

The unveiling of a memorial stone and the reading of a letter written by Max Liebster

Florida Holocaust Museum – USA

Exhibition: “Jehovah’s Witnesses – Faith Under Fire”

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’s Witness and the Witnesses’ non-violent resistance to Nazi terror inside and outside the camps… >> more

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