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Facing the Lion - Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe

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Facing the Lion - Memoirs of a Young Girl in Nazi Europe

By: Simone Arnold-Liebster
Narrated by: Simone Arnold-Liebster
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FACING THE LION is the autobiographical account of a young girl's faith and courage. In the years immediately preceding World War II, Simone Arnold is a young girl who delights in life – her doting parents, her loving aunts and uncles, and her grandparents at their mountain farm in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France. As Simone grows into her preteen years, her parents turn from the Catholic Church and become devout Jehovah's Witnesses. Simone, too, embraces the faith. The Nazi party (the "Lion") takes over Alsace-Lorraine, and Simone's schools become Nazi propaganda machines. Simone refuses to accept the Nazi party as being above God. Her simple acts of defiance lead her to be persecuted by the school staff and local officials, and ignored by friends. With her father already taken away to a German concentration camp, Simone is wrested away from her mother and sent to a reform school to be "reeducated."

There, Simone learns that her mother has also been put in a camp. Simone remains in the harsh reform school until the end of the war. She emerges feeling detached from life, but the faith that sustains her through her ordeals helps her rebuild her world. Facing the Lion provides an interesting and detailed view of ordinary country and town life in the pre-war years and during Hitler's regime. This inspiring story of a young girl standing up for her beliefs in the face of society's overwhelming pressure to conform is a potent reminder of the power of remaining true to one's beliefs.

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Not just the words spoken, but how they were spoken filled with so much emotion will continue to work on my personal devotion and loyalty to my God! Such examples of faithfulness under extreme persecution reminds me that there is no breaking point for true Christianity.

True apapè love

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What a beautiful life story of faith. If Jehovah can help this little girl stay faithful under such extreme circumstances, he can help us all.

AMAZING!

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This story was so faith inspiring. I loved listening to Simone’s trials and how she met each challenge in her own voice. It is a testimony to her parent’s upbringing of her and of her God’s constant caring for her throughout her entire life.

Inspiring story of faith and hope

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