Soviet Union persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses included exile, arrest, imprisonment, and even death.
Exiled to Sibera. On April 1951, thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses from Ukraine, Moldavia, and the Baltic lands had to endure harsh treatment.
Story of 20 families.As the Nazi killing machine engulfed Europe with terror, thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses suffered brutal persecution.
Holocaust experience of a German family.
Stavropol Convention Disrupted and Canceled.
August 29, 2003
On December 8, 2009, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered the appeal of a local congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses and upheld the earlier lower court ruling to pronounce 34 pieces of educational religious literature “extremist.” Setting a somber precedent, the Supreme Court dismissed the congregation’s appeal. That congregation and possibly others now face “liquidation.”
West Virginia
State Board of Education v. Barnette
1943
Designed by Barbara Joan Gushin