international activities

 

2010

Curriculum Integration of Technology Workshop, Alabama – USA

This workshop was presented in three sessions as part of the Mega Professional Development Day for Lowndes County Public Schools on January 15, 2010 at Central High School, Hayneville, Alabama... >> more

 

2009

Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center – USA

Artifacts Exhibit on loan courtesy of Simone Liebster and the Arnold-Liebster Foundation... >> more

Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center – USA

Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis
This full-day workshop for 7th-12th grade classroom teachers included a session about the Nazi persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses... >> more

North Rhein - Westphalia, Germany

Exhibition : « Erinnern für die Zukunft – 70 Jahre danach ».
« Remembering for the Future - 70 Years Later » : this is the theme for a series of events ... >> more

 

2008

The Jehovah's Witnesses Versus Nazism - Auschwitz

Imprisoned for Their Faith
Temporary Exhibition in Auschwitz Museum ... >> more

Roter Ochse Memorial - Germany

Exhibition “Jehovah’s Witnesses, victims of two German dictatorships – the prisoners of Roter Ochse” ... >> more

 

2007

Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Memorial – Germany

On display from August 1 to 31, 2007, this exceptional exhibit presents a chronological and thematic presentation of the history of Jehovah's Witnesses incarcerated under the National Socialist regime.

 

 

St Petersburg – Russia

Official launch of Max Liebster’s Crucible of Terror

On July 5, 2007, the Russian version of Max Liebster's "Crucible of Terror" was launched in St. Petersburg, Russia... >> more 

 

2006

Martin-Springer Institute – 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.

>>> See July 20, 2006 educator letter <<<

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

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

 

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2004

Reichenbach/Lautertal – Germany

Max Liebster becomes an honorary citizen in his hometown. Excerpts from the daily Bergstrasser Anzeiger.

 

2002

Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial – Germany

The unveiling of a memorial stone in the former Buchenwald Camp on May 9, 2002.

 

1995

Buchenwald – Germany

Max Liebster, visiting the fifth concentration camp in which he was imprisoned.

On his way back from Brandenburg where Max and his wife, Simone, participated in an event organized to honor Jehovah's Witnesses who were sentenced to death by the Nazis and executed by hanging or beheading. Max returned for the first time to the Buchenwald concentration camp where he had been liberated as a Jewish prisoner. He found a certain woodpile... >> more

 

 

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