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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum presents a special program at 7 p.m. on October 1, 2009.

This program highlights the persecution of the Jehovah’s Witness community in Germany during the Holocaust era through a historical talk, a review of artifacts in the collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and an interview with Hermine Liska, a survivor of Nazi persecution. Ms. Liska was 11 years old in Carinthia, a province in German-annexed Austria, when the authorities removed her from her parents who were Jehovah’s Witnesses. They took her to a National Socialist reeducation institution in Munich where the teachers repeatedly tried to force her to give the “Heil Hitler” salute. She steadfastly refused, due to her religious beliefs. In April 1944 at the age of 13 she was finally able to return to her home. The interview will be conducted in German with English translation.

Seating for this program is at capacity and we are no longer able to accept reservations. Please visit www.ushmm.org in the weeks following the program to see the program in its entirety online. Thank you for your interest and we look forward to seeing you at a future museum event.

RESOURCES

• Jehovah’s Witnesses: Victims of the Nazi Era
  
• Jehovah’s Witnesses Encyclopedia Article
  
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Name Lists Catalog