Leopold Engleitner
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Leopold Engleitner is a Holocaust survivor and conscientious objector
who speaks publicly on his experiences with students. He is the subject of the documentary Unbroken Will. Engleitner is now the oldest survivor of the concentration camps Buchenwald, Niederhagen
and Ravensbrück
.
Born in Aigen-Voglhub
, Austria
, Engleiter grew up in the Austria
n imperial city of Bad Ischl
. He studied the Bible
intensively in the 1930s and became baptized
as one of Jehovah's Witnesses
in 1932. During the period prior to World War II
he faced religious intolerance
, even persecution
from his immediate surrounding and the Austrian authorities, first by the fascist regime of Dollfuss
and then under Nazi Germany
.
When Adolf Hitler
occupied Austria
in 1938, Leopold Engleitner's religion, ideologies, and his conscientious objection
to serving in the Army came into conflict with those of the Nazis
.
and taken to Linz and Wels for remand. From the 9 October 1939 till 15 July 1943 he was imprisoned in the concentration camps Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrueck. In Niederhagen he rejected a proposal to renounce his beliefs, even though that would have led to his release. Despite brutal and inhumane treatment his will – to stand for fair principles and to refuse the military service – was unbroken.
In July 1943 - weighing only 62 pounds - he was released from the concentration camp under the condition that he would agree to be a lifelong slave laborer on a farm.
On the 5 May 1945, Engleitner was finally able to return home, and he continued working on the farm in St. Wolfgang as a slave laborer. When in 1946 he tried to leave the farm, his request was rejected by the labor bureau of Bad Ischl with the argument his slave labor duty from the Nazi occupation was still valid. Only after an intervention of the US occupying power was he released from that duty in April 1946.
documented his life in 1999 in the book and documentary film Nein statt Ja und Amen, did the larger public become aware of him. Engleitner and Rammerstorfer held lectures at universities, schools and memorials in Germany, Italy
, Austria
, Switzerland
and the U.S.
.
version, called Unbroken Will, and were presented in the US with a tour including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
in Washington, D.C.
, Columbia University
in New York
and the Simon Wiesenthal Center
in Los Angeles
.
In 2006, Engleitner and Rammerstorfer made a second tour through the United States. They gave lectures in Washington, D.C., (at Georgetown University
and Library of Congress
), New York (at Columbia University), Chicago (at Harold Washington College
), Skokie (for the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois), Palo Alto, in the San Francisco Bay area (Stanford University) and Los Angeles (at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust).
The locations of their third 2009 U.S. speaking tour were the following:
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida; Palladium Theater at St. Petersburg College, Florida; Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, California; University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Moorpark College, California; Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, California.
This is how he became an international symbol for bravery, tolerance, and fair principles.
Today Leopold Engleitner is the oldest survivor of the concentration camps Buchenwald
, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück
.
In 2005 Rammerstorfer released a new German biography and DVD Nein statt Ja und Amen – 100 Jahre ungebrochener Wille. The book also contains a short biography of the German conscientious objector Joachim Escher. Eschers was detained between 1937 and 1945 in several different prisons and in the concentration camps Sachsenhausen, Niederhagen and Buchenwald. In KZ Buchenwald he was servant to the former French
government members Georges Mandel
and Léon Blum
, who the Germans kept as hostages.
Engleitner is also the subject of Rammerstorfer's educational DVD Unbroken Will which contains the full documentary plus films of special events relating to Engleitner's awareness-raising activities from 1999 to 2004 as well as material on the Holocaust for the use in schools in English, German, Italian, and Spanish.
In 2006, Rammerstorfer produced the documentary
Unbroken Will Captivates the United States relating to the 2004 U.S. tour which was premiered at the Laemmle's Music Hall 3 Theatre in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
.
Rammerstorfer produced also the documentary
Unbroken Will USA Tour relating to the 2006 U.S. tour which was premiered in the U.S. at the Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theatre in West Hollywood, in 2009.
The French version of the book entitled Une volonté de fer was released in 2007.
In 2008 Rammerstorfer released a new version of the German book, entitled "Ungebrochener Wille", which Engleitner and Rammerstorfer presented at Frankfurt Book Fair 2008 in Germany, the world's largest book fair.
In 2009, the new English book Unbroken Will: The Extraordinary Courage of an Ordinary Man-The Story of Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Leopold Engleitner, born 1905 based on the latest German version was released at Harvard University.
The Austrian president, Heinz Fischer
, described in his foreword the book as "a milestone in the correspondence about the horror of Nazism." Brewster Chamberlin, director of archives at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC from 1986 to 1997, wrote a preface.
Further prefaces were written by the founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
Andreas Maislinger
, Franz Jägerstätter
and Leopold Engleitner, and Walter Manoschek, from the University of Vienna
, "No more War!"
The Russian translation of the book Unbroken Will (Несломленная воля) was released in Russia in 2009. Engleitner and Rammerstorfer presented the book in Moscow at the Central Journalist House and at the book store "BIBLIO-GLOBUS" in September 2009.
from California have written the song "Unbroken Will" for Leopold Engleitner. On May 22, 2009, Leopold Engleitner was presented the song during an event at Moorpark College. The singer Phillip Ingram interprets "Unbroken Will". The song is available for download on the website www.unbrokenwill.com as well as the lyrics.
In 2003, he was awarded the "Silver Order of Merit of the Province of Upper Austria" by the Upper Austrian governor Josef Pühringer.
He was also awarded the Elfriede Grünberg Prize in 2006 by Antifa, an anti-Faschist Initiative in Austria
.
In 2008, he was presented with the "Ring of Honor of the Town of Bad Ischl" by the municipal authorities in Bad Ischl, the town Engleitner grew up in.
In 2009, he received the "Badge of Honor of the Town of St. Wolfgang" by his home municipality St. Wolfgang.
Conscientious objector
A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, and/or religion....
who speaks publicly on his experiences with students. He is the subject of the documentary Unbroken Will. Engleitner is now the oldest survivor of the concentration camps Buchenwald, Niederhagen
Niederhagen concentration camp
The Niederhagen concentration camp was a German concentration camp on the outskirts of Büren-Wewelsburg which existed from September 1941.-The camp:...
and Ravensbrück
Ravensbrück concentration camp
Ravensbrück was a notorious women's concentration camp during World War II, located in northern Germany, 90 km north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück ....
.
Born in Aigen-Voglhub
Strobl
Strobl is a municipality of the Salzburg-Umgebung District , in the northeastern portion of the Austrian state of Salzburg, right on the border with Upper Austria...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, Engleiter grew up in the Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n imperial city of Bad Ischl
Bad Ischl
Bad Ischl is a spa town in Austria. It lies in the southern part of Upper Austria, at the Traun River in the centre of the Salzkammergut region. The town consists of the Katastralgemeinden Ahorn, Bad Ischl, Haiden, Jainzen, Kaltenbach, Lauffen, Lindau, Pfandl, Perneck, Reiterndorf and Rettenbach...
. He studied the Bible
Bible
The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
intensively in the 1930s and became baptized
Baptism
In Christianity, baptism is for the majority the rite of admission , almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally and also membership of a particular church tradition...
as one of Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a millenarian restorationist Christian denomination with nontrinitarian beliefs distinct from mainstream Christianity. The religion reports worldwide membership of over 7 million adherents involved in evangelism, convention attendance of over 12 million, and annual...
in 1932. During the period prior to World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
he faced religious intolerance
Religious intolerance
Religious intolerance is intolerance against another's religious beliefs or practices.-Definition:The mere statement on the part of a religion that its own beliefs and practices are correct and any contrary beliefs incorrect does not in itself constitute intolerance...
, even persecution
Persecution
Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another group. The most common forms are religious persecution, ethnic persecution, and political persecution, though there is naturally some overlap between these terms. The inflicting of suffering, harassment, isolation,...
from his immediate surrounding and the Austrian authorities, first by the fascist regime of Dollfuss
Engelbert Dollfuss
Engelbert Dollfuss was an Austrian Christian Social and Patriotic Front statesman. Serving previously as Minister for Forest and Agriculture, he ascended to Federal Chancellor in 1932 in the midst of a crisis for the conservative government...
and then under Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
.
Time Spent in Prison From 1934 to 1938
- Spring 1934 48 hours in Bad Ischl prison
- Winter 1934/35 48 hours in Bad Ischl prison
- 05/01/1936 to 30/03/1936 imprisonment in St. Gilgen and Salzburg
- 19/09/1937 to 14/10/1937 detained in Bad Aussee prison
When Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
occupied Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
in 1938, Leopold Engleitner's religion, ideologies, and his conscientious objection
Conscientious objector
A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, and/or religion....
to serving in the Army came into conflict with those of the Nazis
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
.
Concentration Camps
On the 4 April 1939 he was arrested in Bad Ischl by the GestapoGestapo
The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...
and taken to Linz and Wels for remand. From the 9 October 1939 till 15 July 1943 he was imprisoned in the concentration camps Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrueck. In Niederhagen he rejected a proposal to renounce his beliefs, even though that would have led to his release. Despite brutal and inhumane treatment his will – to stand for fair principles and to refuse the military service – was unbroken.
In July 1943 - weighing only 62 pounds - he was released from the concentration camp under the condition that he would agree to be a lifelong slave laborer on a farm.
Escape
After his return home, he worked on a farm in St. Wolfgang. Three weeks before the war was over, on the 17 April 1945, he received his enlistment to the German army, whereupon he fled to the mountains of Salzkammergut. He hid there in an alpine cabin and in a cave and was hunted by the Nazis, but was never found.On the 5 May 1945, Engleitner was finally able to return home, and he continued working on the farm in St. Wolfgang as a slave laborer. When in 1946 he tried to leave the farm, his request was rejected by the labor bureau of Bad Ischl with the argument his slave labor duty from the Nazi occupation was still valid. Only after an intervention of the US occupying power was he released from that duty in April 1946.
Time Served in Prisons, Concentration Camps and Doing Forced Labor During Nazi Persecution
- 04/04/1939 to 05/10/1939 prisons in Bad Ischl, Linz and Wels
- 05/10/1939 to 09/10/1939 deportation to concentration camp (prisons in Salzburg and Munich)
- 09/10/1939 to 07/03/1941 Buchenwald concentration camp
- 07/03/1941 to April 1943 Niederhagen concentration camp in Wewelsburg
- April 1943 to 15/07/1943 Ravensbrück concentration camp
- 22/07/1943 to 10/04/1946 forced labor on a farm
- 17/04/1945 to 05/05/1945 flight to the mountains after being called up
Post War Period
In the years after the war, Leopold Engleitner continued to face isolation and intolerance, and only after the author and film producer Bernhard RammerstorferBernhard Rammerstorfer
-Publications:Since 1994, Bernhard Rammerstorfer, has conducted intensive research that has enabled him to produce a historically accurate record of Nazi concentration camp survivor Leopold Engleitner’s life that has appeared in a number of publications and films in various languages and countries...
documented his life in 1999 in the book and documentary film Nein statt Ja und Amen, did the larger public become aware of him. Engleitner and Rammerstorfer held lectures at universities, schools and memorials in Germany, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
and the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
U.S. Speaking Tours
In 2004 the book and the film were translated into an EnglishEnglish language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
version, called Unbroken Will, and were presented in the US with a tour including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust. Adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the USHMM provides for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history...
in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
in New York
New York City
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and the Simon Wiesenthal Center
Simon Wiesenthal Center
The Simon Wiesenthal Center , with headquarters in Los Angeles, California, was established in 1977 and named for Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi hunter. According to its mission statement, it is "an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to repairing the world one step at a time...
in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
.
In 2006, Engleitner and Rammerstorfer made a second tour through the United States. They gave lectures in Washington, D.C., (at Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...
and Library of Congress
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...
), New York (at Columbia University), Chicago (at Harold Washington College
Harold Washington College
Harold Washington College is a community college within the City Colleges of Chicago system of Chicago, Illinois. It is located in the Loop at 30 E Lake St...
), Skokie (for the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois), Palo Alto, in the San Francisco Bay area (Stanford University) and Los Angeles (at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust).
The locations of their third 2009 U.S. speaking tour were the following:
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida; Palladium Theater at St. Petersburg College, Florida; Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, California; University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); Moorpark College, California; Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, California.
This is how he became an international symbol for bravery, tolerance, and fair principles.
Today Leopold Engleitner is the oldest survivor of the concentration camps Buchenwald
Buchenwald concentration camp
Buchenwald concentration camp was a German Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil.Camp prisoners from all over Europe and Russia—Jews, non-Jewish Poles and Slovenes,...
, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück
Ravensbrück concentration camp
Ravensbrück was a notorious women's concentration camp during World War II, located in northern Germany, 90 km north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück ....
.
UNBROKEN WILL: The Books and DVDs
The English translation of the German book Nein statt Ja und Amen (1999) was published in 2004 in the USA, entitled Unbroken Will.In 2005 Rammerstorfer released a new German biography and DVD Nein statt Ja und Amen – 100 Jahre ungebrochener Wille. The book also contains a short biography of the German conscientious objector Joachim Escher. Eschers was detained between 1937 and 1945 in several different prisons and in the concentration camps Sachsenhausen, Niederhagen and Buchenwald. In KZ Buchenwald he was servant to the former French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
government members Georges Mandel
Georges Mandel
Georges Mandel was a French politician, journalist, and French Resistance leader.-Biography:Born Louis George Rothschild in Chatou, Yvelines, was the son of a tailor...
and Léon Blum
Léon Blum
André Léon Blum was a French politician, usually identified with the moderate left, and three times the Prime Minister of France.-First political experiences:...
, who the Germans kept as hostages.
Engleitner is also the subject of Rammerstorfer's educational DVD Unbroken Will which contains the full documentary plus films of special events relating to Engleitner's awareness-raising activities from 1999 to 2004 as well as material on the Holocaust for the use in schools in English, German, Italian, and Spanish.
In 2006, Rammerstorfer produced the documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
Unbroken Will Captivates the United States relating to the 2004 U.S. tour which was premiered at the Laemmle's Music Hall 3 Theatre in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
.
Rammerstorfer produced also the documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
Unbroken Will USA Tour relating to the 2006 U.S. tour which was premiered in the U.S. at the Laemmle's Sunset 5 Theatre in West Hollywood, in 2009.
The French version of the book entitled Une volonté de fer was released in 2007.
In 2008 Rammerstorfer released a new version of the German book, entitled "Ungebrochener Wille", which Engleitner and Rammerstorfer presented at Frankfurt Book Fair 2008 in Germany, the world's largest book fair.
In 2009, the new English book Unbroken Will: The Extraordinary Courage of an Ordinary Man-The Story of Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Leopold Engleitner, born 1905 based on the latest German version was released at Harvard University.
The Austrian president, Heinz Fischer
Heinz Fischer
Heinz Fischer GColIH is the President of Austria. He took office on 8 July 2004 and was re-elected for a second and last term on 25 April 2010. Before he took office, Fischer was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria...
, described in his foreword the book as "a milestone in the correspondence about the horror of Nazism." Brewster Chamberlin, director of archives at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC from 1986 to 1997, wrote a preface.
Further prefaces were written by the founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service is an alternative to Austria's compulsory national military service / alternative service founded in 1992. Since 1998 it is part of the Austrian Service Abroad...
Andreas Maislinger
Andreas Maislinger
Andreas Maislinger is an Austrian historian and founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and Braunau Contemporary History Days.- Studying and learning :...
, Franz Jägerstätter
Franz Jägerstätter
Blessed Franz Jägerstätter, O.F.S., was an Austrian conscientious objector during World War II. Jägerstätter was sentenced to death and executed...
and Leopold Engleitner, and Walter Manoschek, from the University of Vienna
University of Vienna
The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
, "No more War!"
The Russian translation of the book Unbroken Will (Несломленная воля) was released in Russia in 2009. Engleitner and Rammerstorfer presented the book in Moscow at the Central Journalist House and at the book store "BIBLIO-GLOBUS" in September 2009.
UNBROKEN WILL: The Song
In May 2009, the songwriters Mark David Smith and Rex SalasRex Salas
Rex Salas is a Grammy and Emmy Award nominated American record producer, songwriter, musical director, and music arranger...
from California have written the song "Unbroken Will" for Leopold Engleitner. On May 22, 2009, Leopold Engleitner was presented the song during an event at Moorpark College. The singer Phillip Ingram interprets "Unbroken Will". The song is available for download on the website www.unbrokenwill.com as well as the lyrics.
Rehabilitation and Recognition
Once a persecuted concentration camp laborer and outlawed conscientious objector he had been honored in May 2007 from the Republic of Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany for his courageous stand during the Nazi regime and for his tremendous awareness-raising activities with:- The Golden Order of Merit of the Republic of Austria from Austrian President Dr. Heinz Fischer.
- The Cross of Merit on ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany (Knight's Cross) from German President Dr. Horst KöhlerHorst KöhlerHorst Köhler is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union. He was President of Germany from 2004 to 2010. As the candidate of the two Christian Democratic sister parties, the CDU and the CSU, and the liberal FDP, Köhler was elected to his first five-year term by the Federal Assembly on...
In 2003, he was awarded the "Silver Order of Merit of the Province of Upper Austria" by the Upper Austrian governor Josef Pühringer.
He was also awarded the Elfriede Grünberg Prize in 2006 by Antifa, an anti-Faschist Initiative in Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
.
In 2008, he was presented with the "Ring of Honor of the Town of Bad Ischl" by the municipal authorities in Bad Ischl, the town Engleitner grew up in.
In 2009, he received the "Badge of Honor of the Town of St. Wolfgang" by his home municipality St. Wolfgang.
Sources
- Book Unbroken Will: The Extraordinary Courage of an Ordinary Man-The Story of Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Leopold Engleitner, born 1905 (Austria, 2009)
- Educational DVD Unbroken Will (USA, 2004)
- DVD Unbroken Will Captivates the United States (USA, 2006)
- DVD Unbroken Will USA Tour (USA, 2009)
- "Persecution and Resistance of Jehovah's Witnesses During the Nazi Regime: 1933-1945" by Hans Hesse, Edition Temmen, 2003, ISBN-10 3861087502, ISBN-13 978-3861087502
- "Though Weak, I Am Powerful" as told by Leopold Engleitner, The WatchtowerThe WatchtowerThe Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom is an illustrated religious magazine, published semi-monthly in 194 languages by Jehovah's Witnesses via the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania and printed in various branch offices around the world...
, May 1, 2005, page 23-28 - "For Jehovah in the concentration camp - Engleitner", DiePresse.com, May 8, 2010, online, in German