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During WWii

The persecution of jehovah's witnesses 
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Victims during the Holocaust

  • Jews
  • Polish Jews/Christan Jews
  • Roma Gypsies
  • Preist and Pastors
  • Homosexuals
  • Black/mixed children
  • People with mental disabilities
  • Jehovah's Witnesses
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Interview with a JEhovah's Witness Member

  • Name: David Quesada
  • Born: Oakland, Ca
  • He remembers: time being "Peaceful, it wan't as violent as it is now."
  • At age 12 he would assist the meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses.
  • "Being a Jehovah's Witness brought unity, comfort, peace, and tranquility to his family."

He was born in Oakland. As a child he recalls time "was peaceful, it wasn't as violent as it is now. As a matter a fact the house [he was born] doesn't exist anymore."
At age 12 he would go "to the meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses to study the bible.
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During World war 2

  • He remembers the fear he had from the "violence and sadness of all the people who lost their lives."
  • "There were bombs and things [he's] never experienced before which brought fear and discomfort."

He states that during WWII, there was "violence and sadness of all the people who lost their lives. There were bombs and all those things which [he's] never experience before brought fear and discomfort."
However after the war ended, "It was more peaceful, and [he didn't] fear that a bomb would just drop."
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After The War

  • "It was more peaceful"
  • He no longer feared that a bomb would be dropped.
  • He states that he didn't suffer like the others did in other places around the world, because Jehovah's Witnesses were also persecuted during WWII.

You see, Jehovah's Witnesses were also persecuted during WWII. But before I get to the topic, I would like to share a bit of the history behind this organization.
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Who are Jehovah's Witnesses?

  • They are of many people in this world who want to honor Jehovah ,God.
  • They do their best to imitate his son, Jesus Christ and are proud to be called christians.
  • Before the 20th century they were known as the Bible students. Until 1931 when it was announced publicly that they will be known as Jehovah's Witnesses, which is based of a scripture (Isaiah 43:10).


Before the 20th century, Jehovah's Witnesses were known as Bible students. Until 1931, when brother J.F Rutherford (whom had taken the lead after brother Russell's death), and his colleagues announced in a public assembly that they will be known as Jehovah's Witnesses, which is based off Isaiah 43:10("You are my witnesses", declares Jehovah...)
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In the 1890's, Jehovah's Witnesses send missionaries to Germany to spread the good news.

By the early 1930's only 20,000
Germans were Jehovah's Witnesses, which at that time were known as "International Bible Students."

Activities such as door-to-door preaching identified them and eventually German authorities sought to limit their activities.

In the 1890's, Jehovah's Witnesses send missionaries to Germany to spread the good news.
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Their religious literature was banned.
Nazi troopers broke up Bible study meetings and beat up individual Witnesses.
As a result, Jehovah's Witnesses were recognized for their strong faith by neglecting to believe and Hail Hitler and the Nazi ideology.

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In response to Nazi efforts to destroy them, the world wide Jehovah's Witness organization became a center of spiritual resistance against the Nazi.

They had the option to escape
persecution and harm by renouncing their religious beliefs by signing a declaration. Yet the vast majority refused to do so. The torture and mistreat during the camps, and execution, won them the respect of many contemporaries.
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Witnesses were marked by a purple triangle.

Witnesses were also
considered unusually trustworthy because they refused to escape from camps or physically resist their guards. For this reason, they were often used as domestic servants by Nazi camp officers and guards.
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Witness were marked by purple triangle patche

  • Even in camps, they continued to meet, pray, and preach. Some even set up an underground printing press and distributed religious tracts.
  • Many died from hunger, disease, exhaustion, exposure to the cold, and brutal treatment.
  • Many guards noted that Witnesses were uniquely sustained in camps by the support they gave each other and by their beliefs

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their faith gave RECOGNITION to god

  • In the Nazi years, 10,000 Witnesses were imprisoned in concentration camps. After 1939, a small number of Witnesses (from Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Norway, and Poland) were arrested and deported to different camps.
  • About 2,500 to 5,000 Witnesses died in camps or prison. More than 200 men were tried by the German War Court and executed for refusing military service.
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Conclusion

  • In the end, Hitler's statement didn't go as planned. He wanted to banish all of Jehovah's Witnesses, but it didn't go his way. Till date, Jehovah's Witnesses have kept doing their work, moving among survivors, and preaching the good news.
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reference

  • "Jehovah's Witnesses-Who are we?"JW.org.Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania.n.d.Web.23 Feb.2015.
  • WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK,INC."Jehovah's Witnesses, Proclaimers of God's Kingdom." New York:INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION, 1993.Print.
  • "Non-Jewish Victims of the Holocaust:Jehovah's Witnesses"Jewish virtual library. American-Israeli Corporative Enterprise,n.d.Web.23 Feb.2015
"Jehovah's Witnesses-Who are we?"JW.org.Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania.n.d.Web.23 Feb.2015.

WATCHTOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK,INC."Jehovah's Witnesses, Proclaimers of God's Kingdom." New York:INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION, 1993.Print.
"Non-Jewish Victims of the Holocaust:Jehovah's Witnesses"Jewish virtual library. American-Israeli Corporative Enterprise,n.d.Web.23 Feb.2015
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