BLOG 3...: Facing the Lion Part 2

Continuing on the story of Simone Arnold Liebster. This book continues to explain in deep detail the lives of those children who were separated from their parents and sent to Nazi reform schools during war years. The children who were not involved in a Nazi organization were to be found guilty if immoral and dishonorable behavior. All sort of political authority believed that Jehovah’s Witnesses who were parents were of bad influence to their children and considered to be dangerous. As Simone was expelled from her school after being subjected to physical and psychological brutality to conform, at the age of 12 she was taken from her mother’s custody and transferred to the Wessenberg Erziehungsanstalt reform school in Germany. So, throughout the book she has to put up this fight to maintain whatever normality she could possible keep in a physical and psychological sense. In the end, Simone Arnold Liebster’s story taught me to have hope, strength and courage. This book brings out her courage in fighting the true fight for her social and religious values.