Facing The Lion: Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe | 
 enlarge | Author: Simone Arnold Liebster
Publisher: Grammaton Press, LLC
Category: Book
Buy New: $57.50
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Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 284613
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 418
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.4
ISBN: 0967936659
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780967936659
ASIN: 0967936659
Publication Date: April 28, 2000
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Facing The Lion is an inspiring autobiographical account of a young, non-Jewish girl standing up for her beliefs in the face of overwhelming pressure to conform to the Nazi propaganda machines. Simone refuses to accept the Nazi party and her simple acts of defiance lead her to be persecuted by her school and local officials, and ignored by friends. She is put in a harsh reform school until the end of the war.
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 inspiring and faith strengthening May 24, 2008
Joomi Lee (World citizen)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I deducted one star because she uses Roman Catholic religious terminology that I wasn't familiar with. That is to say, they failed to provide a glossary. br / br /Her book is more lengthy than her husband's autobiography of surviving the Holocaust (Max Liebster, a Jewish Jehovah's Witness) br / br /I could feel her loneliness and also her strength and determination to win the race for life because Jehovah kept strengthening her at the right moments to that she never felt alone! br / br /Unlike some Witnesses who survived the Holocaust, I'm pretty sure that Simone and her husband did not succomb to Satans' lies of materialism, immorality, idolatry, and apostasy! (At least, I would hope so around here.) All the anointed die faithful and loyal when under severe persecution. It is only when they believe Satans' lies (like Annania and Saphira) that they fail. Remember your Achilles' heel! br / br /I surmise that a Jew/Israeli is more likely to become a Witness than they are to become Mormon. Isn't that funny?
Great for all ages! March 8, 2008
Jeanette R. Pyles (Accokeek, MD USA)
What a wonderful true story to inspire courage and the ability to stand up for oneself. A true treasure to be read and reread.
Review of Facing the Lion November 22, 2007
Ted Winget (Sagle, ID)
This is a powerful, inspiring story of how even a child can have tremendous courage in the face of overwhelming oppression. My 10-year old daughter and I shared it together.
Simone is a real survivor October 3, 2007
L. Murdock
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is a first hand account of a young girl who had what it took to survive her horrible experience under the Nazi's. What she "had" was her religion. It is amazing to me that the large amount of Jehovah's Witnesses came through those war years able to cope with life after the war. So many others (in the camps) had no means of doing so. What J.W.'s have is nothing short of a miracle, as I have seen for myself. My 18 yr. old son and I met Simone and her husband at their home in France this past winter. The first thing Max did was to show us the number tattooed on his arm.Then he said to my son, "young man, I watched a 1000 people being put to death every day". Yet, here he stood, just out of the hospital the day before, still bright and full of life and love for his faith, at over 90 yrs. old. Next on my list is his book which I hear is just as inspiring as his wife's.
Young Girls Life interrupted by Nazie terrorists! July 14, 2007
Christina Tchir (Hudson,Florida)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
br / br /This young girl suffered so much at the hands of the French, who sided with the Nazies. br /She was French and they took her away from her parents and put her in a terrible reform type school. br /This book enlightened me as to how horrific that these Jehovahs Witnesses were treated and only because of their deep religious convictions. br /It brought many tears to my eyes at how the innocent ones suffered.
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