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USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education

Living Histories

Designed for Grades 9-12. (Teachers may find the lesson applicable and suitable for Grade 8.)

30-minute testimony of Franz Wohlfahrt includes downloadable video, modular lessons, student activities, discussion questions, glossary, and biography. Explores themes such as resistance, responsibility, courage, and faith.

Segments for the Classroom: Facing Persecution as a Jehovah’s Witness

Created to assist educators of students age 14 and up, this Segment contains excerpts of the testimony of Simone Maria Liebster, accompanied by a written summary.

View or download video clips  from interview with Simone Maria Liebster (Simone Maria Liebster, second from left)

Download written summary of “Facing Persecution as a Jehovah’s Witness”


Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

2010 Theme: “The Legacy of Hope”

Case Study: A Mosaic of Victims (Jehovah’s Witnesses: Freedom Over Conscience)

2009 Theme: "Stand up to Hatred"

Case Study : Simone Arnold-Liebster

Case Study Questions

 

The Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Excerpts of US Army film of Nuremberg Trials, “Persecution of Religions and Other Victim Groups at Nuremberg,” January 8, 1946, in which US prosecutor cites proof of the Nazi  persecution of the “Bibelforscher,” or Jehovah’s Witnesses. (9 minutes)

Persecution of Religions and Other Victim Groups at Nuremberg

 

The Flag and Freedom

With the Nazi reign of terror as a backdrop, "The Flag and Freedom" describes two landmark US Supreme Court cases involving Jehovah's Witness students and the flag salute.

Jolene Chu and Donna P. Couper, "The Flag and Freedom," Social Education, Volume 67, Issue 6 (Oct. 1, 2003), pp. 327-331.

Download "The Flag and Freedom"

 

Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

University of Minnesota.

Women of Ravensbruck, Charlotte Muller Inmate Story.

 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Identification Cards

Each card provides a biographical sketch, the individual’s experiences from 1933 to 1939, events during the war, and the fate of the individual.

Online booklet Resistance During The Holocaust.

See page 39, paragraph 2; page 42, paragraphs 3-5; chronology on page 46.

 

Jehovah’s Witnesses: Victims of the Nazi Era
1933 - 1945 (booklet)

(Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).

Available from the United States Holocaust Museum Teacher’s Resource Center, part of the “Other Victims” series: www.ushmm.org.

 

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