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	Bernhard Lichtenberg - MedPort-Lexikon
		Kurz nach der Machtergreifung der Nazis 1933 wird Lichtenbergs Wohnung von der Gestapo durchsucht.
		Oktober 1941 wird Lichtenberg von der SS verhaftet.
		1943 wird Lichtenberg in das Konzentrationslager Dachau deportiert.
	www.medport.de /lexikon/index.php/Bernhard_Lichtenberg (418 words)

	Biographie: Bernhard Lichtenberg, 1875-1943
		Dezember: Bernhard Lichtenberg wird als vierter Sohn des Kaufmanns August Lichtenberg in Ohlau (heute: Olawa, Polen) geboren.
		Oktober: Aufgrund der Denunziation zweier Frauen wird Lichtenberg von Angehörigen der Schutzstaffel (SS) verhaftet.
		November: Bernhard Lichtenberg stirbt während der Deportation in das Konzentrationslager Dachau in der Nähe von Hof unter nicht geklärten Umständen.
	www.dhm.de /lemo/html/biografien/LichtenbergBernhard/index.html (384 words)

	Bernhard Lichtenberg
		Ab 1900 ist Lichtenberg als als Kaplan Kurat und schließlich als Pfarrer in Berlin tätig.
		Kurz nach der Machtergreifung Nazis 1933 wird Lichtenbergs Wohnung von der Gestapo durchsucht.
		1941 protestiert Lichtenberg in einem Brief an Reichsgesundheitsführer Leonardo Conti (1900 - 1945) gegen die Ermordung geistig und körperlich (" Euthanasieprogramm ").
	www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/Bernhard_Lichtenberg.html (303 words)

	Bernhard Lichtenberg
		Ein Jahr später wird er nach Berlin versetzt, genauer: nach "Friedrichsberg bei Berlin, Poststation beim Dorf Lichtenberg".
		"Bei der Gerichtsverhandlung hatte Lichtenberg erschüttert bekannt: "Es gibt Stunden, in denen auch ein Priester versucht ist, zu verzweifeln." Das hatte er aufgrund der Erlebnisse in der leichteren Untersuchungshaft gesagt.
		Oktober 1943 sollte Lichtenberg aus der Haftanstalt Tegel entlassen werden.
	www.kath.de /pjp/lichtenb/licheinl.htm (1104 words)

	Bernhard Lichtenberg Straße
		(von 1911-1974 Rastenburger Straße) Lichtenberg, Bernhard, * 3.12.1875 Ohlau (Schlesien), † 5.11.1943 Hof (Bayern), Theologe, Widerstandskämpfer gegen das NS-Regime.
		Lichtenberg predigte von der Kanzel engagiert und konsequent gegen den Faschismus und überreichte Göring 1935 eine Anklageschrift zu den Mordtaten, die im KZ Esterwegen begangen worden waren.
		Lichtenberg leitete ab Herbst 1938, beauftragt durch den späteren Kardinal Johann Konrad von Preysing-Lichtenegg-Moos, das Hilfswerk beim Bischöflichen Ordinariat, wodurch es gelang, viele aus rassischen Gründen verfolgte Mitbürger zu retten.
	www.jurkun.de /strassen/bernhardlichtenberg.htm (247 words)

	Bernhard Lichtenberg
		Der Artikel Bernhard Lichtenberg gehört zur Kategorie: Mann, Zentrum-Mitglied, Gerechter unter den Völkern, NS-Opfer, Märtyrer, Geboren 1875, Gestorben 1943
		Die Verantwortlichen der israelischen Gedenkstätte Yad Vashem ehren Lichtenberg wegen seines Einsatzes für verfolgte Juden postum mit der Auszeichnung als "Gerechten unter den Völkern".
		Eintrag zur Fernsehverfilmung Bernhard Lichtenberg (1965) in der IMDb
	www.weblexikon.de /Bernhard_Lichtenberg.html (437 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One of the priests to be beatified is the Rev. Bernhard Lichtenberg.
		In the years that followed, Lichtenberg became one of the Catholic Church's most visible opponents of the Nazi regime, dedicating regular evening prayers at St. Hedwig's not only to Christian victims of the Nazis, as he had before Kristallnacht, but also to the Jews.
		Lichtenberg and Leisner were not alone among German Catholic clergy opposing the Nazis.
	www.mosquitonet.com /~prewett/didnotoppose.html (589 words)

	j. - Anti-Nazi German priest in line for sainthood
		The Rev. Bernhard Lichtenberg, who died in 1943 en route to Dachau, would denounce the Nazis from his Berlin pulpit and would close his service with a prayer for the persecuted Jews.
		Lichtenberg is a "true hero of the Holocaust," said Elan Steinberg, executive director of the WJC.
		Lichtenberg was an "exception to the silence" of the Vatican during the World War II era, Steinberg said.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/2703/edition_id/47/format/html/displaystory.html (267 words)

	Germany - Lichtenberg, Bernhard
		Bernhard Lichtenberg was born on December 3 1875 at Ohlau, some 30 kilometers southeast of Breslau in the then Prussian province of Lower Silesia.
		The small merchant family of the Lichtenbergs belonged to the Catholic minority in a predominantly Protestant city.
		Bernhard Lichtenberg obtained his Abiturium (school-leaving exam) at the local gymnasium and decided to dedicate himself to the priestly vocation.
	www1.yadvashem.org /righteous/bycountry/germany/bernhard.html (1538 words)

	BB. Karl Leisner and Bernhard Lichtenberg
		When the Allies liberated Dachau in April 1945, he was sent to a sanitarium, but he died a few weeks later of the rigors of disease and jail.
		Provost Lichtenberg, an older man, had become a popular pastoral figure in Berlin before the Nazis came into power.
		At length, Lichtenberg, too, was arrested for "misusing his official position," and imprisoned for two years.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id559.htm (683 words)

	The Invisible City - The Thought in the Garden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is here that Lichtenberg held a mass every evening, which ended with a prayer for the persecuted Jews.
		Lichtenberg, whose critical opinion and outspoken resistance to the antisemitic policies of the Nazis were well known and are well documented, was made "Provost" ("Probst" - whatever that is - but something high up in the hierarchy) in 1938.
		BERNHARD LICHTENBERG was born on 3 December 1875 in Ohlau, Germany, and ordained a priest in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) in 1899.
	wc1.worldcrossing.com /WebX?14@@.ef5573f (1589 words)

	GDW - Biographien
		Ordained a priest in 1899, Bernhard Lichtenberg has actively promoted Berlin's spiritual welfare for over forty years, most recently as cathedral provost at St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin.
		A courageous, emphatic opponent of the National Socialist regime, Lichtenberg becomes a trusted friend of Konrad Graf von Preysing, the bishop of Berlin.
		The Gestapo keeps Lichtenberg under surveillance as he courageously intervenes on behalf of prisoners and Jews but only arrests him in 1941 after he forcefully protests the murder of infirm persons in a letter to Reich Head of Medical Affairs Conti.
	www.gdw-berlin.de /bio/ausgabe_mit-e.php?id=57 (227 words)

	Erzbistum Berlin
		Er war einer der Pioniere beim Aufbau der katholischen Gemeinden in der ständig wachsenden Weltstadt.
		Juni 1996 wurde Bernhard Lichtenberg vom Papst Johannes Paul II selig gesprochen.
		Bernhard Lichtenberg wird von der Kirche als Märtyrer anerkannt.
	www.erzbistumberlin.de /2824.htm (284 words)

	Public Christian > Print > US Churches, US Senators, and The Church Under the Nazis
		“Bernhard Lichtenberg, priest at St Hedwig’s cathedral in Berlin, was a confidant of … [powerful and protected churchmen] … but that was not enough to save him in the end.”
		“Lichtenberg came to St Hedwig’s in 1932, and was well-enough known to the Gestapo to have his flat searched as early as 1933.
		Some of what Lichtenberg did was “clandestine”, and we can hope church leaders are doing some such things today.
	www.publicchristian.com /wp-print.php?p=24 (652 words)

	Catholic World News : Pope Overcomes Anger, Hate To Preach Reconciliation
		The Holy Father beatified Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg and Blessed Karl Leisner, two anti-Nazi priests who died after being persecuted by the Third Reich.
		Lichtenberg received a letter of support and comfort from Pope Pius XII, who reigned during the war.
		The reference was subtle rebuke to the many critics of the Church's actions during World War II, who have said Pius XII mutely stood by as Nazis marched Jews off to extermination.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=1711 (616 words)

	Heiligen-Blog » Blog Archiv » Bernhard Lichtenberg
		Als Leiter des Bischöflichen Ordinariats gelang es ihm, mehrere Juden vor der Verfolgung zu retten, viele andere Verfolgte konnten durch Lichtenbergs Engagement ins Ausland fliehen.
		Er rief in seinen Predigten zur Fürbitte für Juden und andere Häftlinge in den Konzentrationslagern auf und protestierte 1941 öffentlich gegen das Euthanasieprogramm der Nazis; daraufhin wurde er verhaftet und 1942 zu zwei Jahren Haft verurteilt.
		Kanonisation: Bernhard Lichtenberg wurde 1996 beim Besuch von Papst Johannes Paul II.
	blog.heiligenlexikon.de /2006/11/05/bernhard-lichtenberg (243 words)

	News
		The two beatified priests are the Rev. Bernhard Lichtenberg, who died in a hospital after being jailed for his sermons against persecution of the Jews; and the Rev. Karl Leisner, who was sent to concentration camps for expressing regret that an assassination attempt against Hitler had failed.
		The visit was the pope's first since 1.5 million of Germany's 28 million Catholics mounted a petition drive last year demanding that he relax his opposition to birth control and his requirement of a celibate, all-male priesthood.
		The Rev. Bernhard Lichtenberg died in jail for his sermons against persecuting Jews; the Rev. Karl Leisner was sent to concentration camps for expressing regret that an assassination attempt on Hitler had failed.
	www.christusrex.org /www2/news-old/6-96/es6-23-96.html (3029 words)

	Religious People of Interest in the Shoah
		Adams was known for his seminal work on the Ikklesia, or the Church body as the body of Christ, which Catholic adherents would find at opposition with loyalty to the Nazi State.
		Bernhard Lichtenberg, a Monsignor in Berlin was one of the few outspoken Priests in the diocease of Berlin who vehemently spoke out about the new Regime's brutality and anti-Semitism.
		Bishop of Berlin from 1935 on and close friend and associate of Bettinger, Preysing saw as others after the the Nazis assasinated Rohm, one of their own, that the Nature of the Reich was inherently vile, and changing for the worse.
	www.shoahrose.com /srpeople.html (2638 words)

	Faith: Barmen Declaration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At Barmen, this emerging "Confessing Church" adopted a declaration drafted by Reformed theologian Karl Barth and Lutheran theologian Hans Asmussen, which expressly repudiated the claim that other powers apart from Christ could be sources of God's revelation.
		Not all Christians courageously resisted the regime, but many who did—like the Protestant pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Roman Catholic priest Bernhard Lichtenberg—were arrested and executed in concentration camps.
		The spirituality of the Barmen Declaration profoundly influenced many of the first generation of pastors and laypeople who formed the United Church of Christ in 1957.
	www.ucc.org /faith/barmen.htm (1239 words)

	All Saints Day: Witnesses of Justice and Peace
		They Witnessed to Life in a Culture of Death homily of Pope John Paul II at the beatification of Bernhard Lichtenberg and Karl Leisner on June 23, 1996 in Berlin's Olympic Stadium.
		Bernhard Lichtenberg (site in German) Karl Leisner (site in German)
		The Life of the Venerable Servant of God Matthew Talbot, Irish saint, patron of those who suffer from addictions.
	www.justpeace.org /allsaints.htm (855 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
		The homily was reproduced in leaflets which were dropped by Britain's Royal Air Force over Germany.
		Von Galen's resistance to the Nazi euthanasia programs was kept up by other priests, among them the Provost of Berlin Cathedral, Bernhard Lichtenberg.
		Lichtenberg was arrested, tried and condemned in October 1941.
	www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=60831 (573 words)

	The Lifestyle Magazine
		It provoked a heated and continuing debate on the Vatican's silence during the mass murder of Europe's Jews in the Second World War.
		Hochhuth dedicated The Deputy to two Roman Catholics: the Rev Maximilian Kolbe, who died in place of a Polish fellow prisoner at Auschwitz and was canonised in 1982, and Bernhard Lichtenberg, the provost of St Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin, who repeatedly spoke out publicly against Nazi anti-Semitism and criminality.
		One of the most powerful scenes in Hochhuth's historical drama is the encounter between a doctor on the Auschwitz selection ramp and Riccardo, a Catholic priest who was plucked from the line of Jewish victims shuffling toward the gas chambers.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/Supplements/lifestyle/23092001/story5.htm (1063 words)

	THE POPE SKIPS A SENTENCE...
		Saturday, June 22: Pope John Paul II is speaking in Paderborn, Germany, in memory of four victims of Nazism he has beatified for the holiness of their lives and the witness of their martyrdoms - Edith Stein, Rupert Mayer, Bernhard Lichtenberg and Karl Leisner.
		In his prepared text, which had been distributed to journalists, he had written: "They were a part of the resistance that the entire Church offered to that system that despised God and man." But the Pope does not read those words.
		Sunday, June 23: John Paul is now speaking in Berlin, again in remembrance of Lichtenberg and Leisner.
	www.catholic.net /RCC/Periodicals/Inside/08-96/germany.html (2165 words)

	The Holocaust, the Shoah - The Peace Encyclopedia
		Church records were supplied to state authorities which assisted in the detection of people of Jewish origin, and efforts to aid the persecuted were confined to Catholic non-Aryans.
		While Catholic clergymen protested the Nazi euthanasia program, few, with the exception of Bernhard Lichtenberg, spoke out against the murder of the Jews.
		In Western Europe, Catholic clergy spoke out publicly against the persecution of the Jews and actively helped in the rescue of Jews.
	peace.heebz.com /holocaust.html (4303 words)

	Dragnet (This Rock: October 1999)
		As soon as Fritz Michael Gerlich of Stettin, director of the newspaper Der Gerade Weg [The Straight Way], was arrested and died in Dachau in July 1934, people realized that the Hitler regime was in open conflict with the Catholic world."
		Among the list of martyrs in the first volume of the martyrology are well-known names of personalities who have already been beatified, such as Edith Stein, Canon Bernhard Lichtenberg, and Karl Leisner.
		Among the laity, the book names the married couple Maria and Bernhard Kreulich, who were killed in March, 1944, for criticizing the regime.
	www.catholic.com /thisrock/1999/9910drag.asp (2571 words)

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