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Max Liebster (15 February 1915 – 28 May 2008) was a German-born victim of
database w/images (https://www.ancestry.com/ : accessed date 24 Aug 2019) The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; NAI Number: 2848504; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004; Record Group Number: 85; Series Number: A3998; NARA Roll Number: 69 Name: Max Liebster Nationality: American Arrival Age: 42 Birth Date: 15 Feb 1915 Birth Place: Reichen Bach/German Hessen Arrival Date: 19 Jul 1958 Arrival Place: New York, New York, USA Destination: New York Airline Ona DC-4 Flight Number: 415 In 1947, Liebster emigrated to America and petitioned to become an American Citizen in 1953."New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24PQ-3WP : 15 March 2018), Max Liebster, 1947; citing Immigration, New York City, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). In 1956, he married Simone Arnold, another survivor of Nazi persecution.
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Max Liebster (15 February 1915 – 28 May 2008) was a German-born victim of Nazi
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hit ...
persecution during World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
due to his Jewish race and religion. During his imprisonment in four concentration camp
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s (Sachsenhausen
Sachsenhausen () or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. It mainly held political prisoners ...
, Neuengamme, Auschwitz, Buchenwald
Buchenwald (; literally 'beech forest') was a Nazi concentration camp established on hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within Germany's 1937 borders. Many actual or su ...
) he studied the Bible with fellow inmates that were Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The group reports a worldwide membership of approximately 8.7 million adherents involved ...
and converted to their religion, baptized in a bathtub at Buchenwald.Poland, Auschwitz-Buchenwald Transport, January 22 & 26, 1945 atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com, 2013. Name: Max Liebstor Date of Birth: 15 Feb 1915 Place of birth: Reichenbach Profession: Dekorateur Date of Transport: 26 Jan 1945 Buchenwald Prisoner Number: 120420 Auschwitz Prisoner Number: 69733 Prisoner Nationality/ German/Austrian Jew (German) Liebster is also notable as the author of the book ''Crucible of Terror: A Story of Survival Through the Nazi Storm.'' Oral History Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.34 RG Number: RG-50.028.0034 Interviewer: Robert Buckley Language: English Oral History Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.97 RG Number: RG-50.028.0097 Interviewer: Robert Buckley Language: English
Family
Liebster was born to Beirech “Bernhard” Liebster and Bertha Oppenheimer in Reichenbach, a part ofLautertal (Odenwald)
Lautertal (Odenwald) is a municipality in the Bergstraße district in the Hessian Odenwald in Germany that came into being with the merger of several former communities.
Geography
Location
The Lauter valley (also called the ''Lautertal'' in Ger ...
.New York, Eastern District Naturalization Petitions, Index, 1865-1957, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XGX3-Q61 : 6 December 2014), Max Liebster, 1953; from "Index to Naturalization Petitions of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1865-1957," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing Court U.S. District Court, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, Index to Naturalization Petitions of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1865-1957, NARA microfilm publication 1164 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1991), roll 86.New York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917-1967database w/images (https://www.ancestry.com/ : accessed date 24 Aug 2019) The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; NAI Number: 2848504; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004; Record Group Number: 85; Series Number: A3998; NARA Roll Number: 69 Name: Max Liebster Nationality: American Arrival Age: 42 Birth Date: 15 Feb 1915 Birth Place: Reichen Bach/German Hessen Arrival Date: 19 Jul 1958 Arrival Place: New York, New York, USA Destination: New York Airline Ona DC-4 Flight Number: 415 In 1947, Liebster emigrated to America and petitioned to become an American Citizen in 1953."New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24PQ-3WP : 15 March 2018), Max Liebster, 1947; citing Immigration, New York City, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). In 1956, he married Simone Arnold, another survivor of Nazi persecution.
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Arnold Liebster Foundation
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Max Liebster
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