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Operation North (Russian: Операция "Север") was the code name assigned by the USSR Ministry of State Security[1] to massive deportation of Jehovah's Witnesses[2] and their families to Siberia in the Soviet Union on 1–2 April 1951.[3][4][5][6]


Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 Implementation
3 Amnesty and exculpation
4 Notable deportees
5 See also
6 References and notes

Background[edit]
There were almost no Jehovah's Witnesses in the Soviet Union until its annexation of the Baltic States, Western Belarus, Western Ukraine, Bessarabia, and Northern Bukovina; most of them were located in the Moldavian SSR and Ukrainian SSR. Jehovah's Witnesses came into the conflict with the Soviet power, primarily because of their refusal to join the military.[4] Their teachings were soon regarded as anti-Soviet. Members of religious groups, mostly Jehovah's Witnesses, qualified as religious elements considered a potential danger for the communist regime.[7][8] In November 1950, Viktor Abakumov reported an idea to Stalin about their deportation, and Stalin suggested to plan this for March–April 1951.[3]
Implementation[edit]
On February 19, 1951, Abakumov delivered a secret notice[9] to Stalin, detailing plans for the deportations of Jehovah's Witnesses to Tomsk Oblast and Irkutsk Oblast. It said, in particular, that during 1947-1950, 1048 Jehovah's Witnesses leaders and activists had been arrested, 5 underground print houses had been uncovered, and large amounts of printed matter confiscated. The deportees were permitted to take a maximum of 150 kilograms of property; the remaining property was to be confiscated "to cover the obligations of the deportees before the state".[4] Abakumov's notice listed the following planned numbers of deportees:[10]
Total number: 8576 persons (3048 families), including: Ukrainian SSR — 6140 persons (2020 families);
Byelorussian SSR — 394 persons (153 families);
Moldavian SSR — 1675 persons (670 families);
Latvian SSR — 52 persons (27 families);
Lithuanian SSR — 76 persons (48 families);
Estonian SSR — 250 persons (130 families).

On March 3, 1951, the USSR Council of Ministers issued the corresponding decree (no. 667-339ss[11]), followed by an order of the Ministry of State Security (no. 00193[11]) of March 5, 1951. On March 24, the Moldavian SSR Council of Ministers issued the decree on the confiscation and selling of the property of the deportees. Operation North started at 4 a.m. on April 1, 1951, and round-ups ended on April 2. The deportees were classified as "special settlers".[3] From the Moldavian SSR, there were 2,617 persons (723 families) deported on the night of March 31 to April 1, 1951.[12][13][7][8] In total, 9,389 persons were deported from the whole country.[citation needed][11]
Amnesty and exculpation[edit]
On September 30, 1965, a decree (no. 4020-1U[11]) of the Presidium of the USSR Council of Ministers cancelled the "special settlement" restriction for members of the four deported religious groups and their family members. However, this decree signed by Anastas Mikoyan stated that there would be no compensation for the confiscated property, and that return to their previous places of residence was subject to the approval of the local administrations. Though released, Jehovah's Witnesses remained the subject of legal persecution due to their ideology classified as anti-Soviet. The organization was legalized in the Soviet Union in 1991. The deported and convicted Jehovah's Withesses (and other religion-related convicts) were rehabilitated as victims of Soviet political repressions by the ukase no. 378 of President of the Russian Federation of March 3, 1996, "On the Measures for Rehabilitation of the Priests and Believers who had become Victims of Unjustified Repressions" (О мерах по реабилитации священнослужителей и верующих, ставших жертвами необоснованных репрессий).[4][11]
Notable deportees[edit]
Family of Zinaida Greceanîi, former prime Minister of Moldova
See also[edit]
Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in other places
Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova
References and notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Operation North" (Russian)
2.Jump up ^ In Soviet documents the group was often called Jehovists. Pavel Polyan in the footnotes to his book Against Their Will notices that the Soviets were probably unaware of another Russian religious group with the same name in Russian
3.^ Jump up to: a b c Валерий Пасат ."Трудные страницы истории Молдовы (1940-1950)". Москва: Изд. Terra, 1994 (Russian)
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d "Christian Believers Were Persecuted by All Totalitarian Regimes" Prava Lyudini ("Rights of a Person"), the newspaper of a Ukrainian human rights organization, Kharkiv, December 2001 (Russian)
5.Jump up ^ Charles King, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture, Hoover Institution Press, 2000, p.96
6.Jump up ^ "50th Anniversary of the Operation North", Bulletin #23, 2001, of the Memorial Society (Russian)
7.^ Jump up to: a b Comisia Prezidenţială pentru Analiza Dictaturii Comuniste din România: Raport Final / ed.: Vladimir Tismăneanu, Dorin Dobrincu, Cristian Vasile, Bucureşti: Humanitas, 2007, ISBN 978-973-50-1836-8, p. 754 (Romanian)
8.^ Jump up to: a b Elena Şişcanu, Basarabia sub ergimul bolşevic (1940-1952), Bucureşti, Ed. Semne, 1998, p.111 (Romanian)
9.Jump up ^ titled Записка МГБ СССР "О необходимости выселения из западных областей Украины и Белоруссии, Молдавской, Латвийской, Литовской и Эстонской ССР участников антисоветской секты иеговистов и членов их семей".
10.Jump up ^ "Recalling Operation North", by Vitali Kamyshev, "Русская мысль", Париж, N 4363, 26 April 2001 (Russian)
11.^ Jump up to: a b c d e "A Survey of Judicial Practice of the Jehovah's Witnesses Cases", G.A.Krylova
12.Jump up ^ Charles King, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture, p. 96
13.Jump up ^ Andrei Brezianu and Vlad Spânu, The A to Z of Moldova, p. 118


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Operation North

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For other uses, see Operation North (disambiguation).
Operation North (Russian: Операция "Север") was the code name assigned by the USSR Ministry of State Security[1] to massive deportation of Jehovah's Witnesses[2] and their families to Siberia in the Soviet Union on 1–2 April 1951.[3][4][5][6]


Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 Implementation
3 Amnesty and exculpation
4 Notable deportees
5 See also
6 References and notes

Background[edit]
There were almost no Jehovah's Witnesses in the Soviet Union until its annexation of the Baltic States, Western Belarus, Western Ukraine, Bessarabia, and Northern Bukovina; most of them were located in the Moldavian SSR and Ukrainian SSR. Jehovah's Witnesses came into the conflict with the Soviet power, primarily because of their refusal to join the military.[4] Their teachings were soon regarded as anti-Soviet. Members of religious groups, mostly Jehovah's Witnesses, qualified as religious elements considered a potential danger for the communist regime.[7][8] In November 1950, Viktor Abakumov reported an idea to Stalin about their deportation, and Stalin suggested to plan this for March–April 1951.[3]
Implementation[edit]
On February 19, 1951, Abakumov delivered a secret notice[9] to Stalin, detailing plans for the deportations of Jehovah's Witnesses to Tomsk Oblast and Irkutsk Oblast. It said, in particular, that during 1947-1950, 1048 Jehovah's Witnesses leaders and activists had been arrested, 5 underground print houses had been uncovered, and large amounts of printed matter confiscated. The deportees were permitted to take a maximum of 150 kilograms of property; the remaining property was to be confiscated "to cover the obligations of the deportees before the state".[4] Abakumov's notice listed the following planned numbers of deportees:[10]
Total number: 8576 persons (3048 families), including: Ukrainian SSR — 6140 persons (2020 families);
Byelorussian SSR — 394 persons (153 families);
Moldavian SSR — 1675 persons (670 families);
Latvian SSR — 52 persons (27 families);
Lithuanian SSR — 76 persons (48 families);
Estonian SSR — 250 persons (130 families).

On March 3, 1951, the USSR Council of Ministers issued the corresponding decree (no. 667-339ss[11]), followed by an order of the Ministry of State Security (no. 00193[11]) of March 5, 1951. On March 24, the Moldavian SSR Council of Ministers issued the decree on the confiscation and selling of the property of the deportees. Operation North started at 4 a.m. on April 1, 1951, and round-ups ended on April 2. The deportees were classified as "special settlers".[3] From the Moldavian SSR, there were 2,617 persons (723 families) deported on the night of March 31 to April 1, 1951.[12][13][7][8] In total, 9,389 persons were deported from the whole country.[citation needed][11]
Amnesty and exculpation[edit]
On September 30, 1965, a decree (no. 4020-1U[11]) of the Presidium of the USSR Council of Ministers cancelled the "special settlement" restriction for members of the four deported religious groups and their family members. However, this decree signed by Anastas Mikoyan stated that there would be no compensation for the confiscated property, and that return to their previous places of residence was subject to the approval of the local administrations. Though released, Jehovah's Witnesses remained the subject of legal persecution due to their ideology classified as anti-Soviet. The organization was legalized in the Soviet Union in 1991. The deported and convicted Jehovah's Withesses (and other religion-related convicts) were rehabilitated as victims of Soviet political repressions by the ukase no. 378 of President of the Russian Federation of March 3, 1996, "On the Measures for Rehabilitation of the Priests and Believers who had become Victims of Unjustified Repressions" (О мерах по реабилитации священнослужителей и верующих, ставших жертвами необоснованных репрессий).[4][11]
Notable deportees[edit]
Family of Zinaida Greceanîi, former prime Minister of Moldova
See also[edit]
Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in other places
Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova
References and notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Operation North" (Russian)
2.Jump up ^ In Soviet documents the group was often called Jehovists. Pavel Polyan in the footnotes to his book Against Their Will notices that the Soviets were probably unaware of another Russian religious group with the same name in Russian
3.^ Jump up to: a b c Валерий Пасат ."Трудные страницы истории Молдовы (1940-1950)". Москва: Изд. Terra, 1994 (Russian)
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d "Christian Believers Were Persecuted by All Totalitarian Regimes" Prava Lyudini ("Rights of a Person"), the newspaper of a Ukrainian human rights organization, Kharkiv, December 2001 (Russian)
5.Jump up ^ Charles King, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture, Hoover Institution Press, 2000, p.96
6.Jump up ^ "50th Anniversary of the Operation North", Bulletin #23, 2001, of the Memorial Society (Russian)
7.^ Jump up to: a b Comisia Prezidenţială pentru Analiza Dictaturii Comuniste din România: Raport Final / ed.: Vladimir Tismăneanu, Dorin Dobrincu, Cristian Vasile, Bucureşti: Humanitas, 2007, ISBN 978-973-50-1836-8, p. 754 (Romanian)
8.^ Jump up to: a b Elena Şişcanu, Basarabia sub ergimul bolşevic (1940-1952), Bucureşti, Ed. Semne, 1998, p.111 (Romanian)
9.Jump up ^ titled Записка МГБ СССР "О необходимости выселения из западных областей Украины и Белоруссии, Молдавской, Латвийской, Литовской и Эстонской ССР участников антисоветской секты иеговистов и членов их семей".
10.Jump up ^ "Recalling Operation North", by Vitali Kamyshev, "Русская мысль", Париж, N 4363, 26 April 2001 (Russian)
11.^ Jump up to: a b c d e "A Survey of Judicial Practice of the Jehovah's Witnesses Cases", G.A.Krylova
12.Jump up ^ Charles King, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture, p. 96
13.Jump up ^ Andrei Brezianu and Vlad Spânu, The A to Z of Moldova, p. 118


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Purple triangle

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 Purple triangle
The purple triangle was a concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify Bibelforscher (the German name for Jehovah's Witnesses) in Nazi Germany. A small number of Adventists, Baptists, Bible Student splinter groups, and pacifists (combined less than one percent) were also identified by the badge.[1] Nazism opposed unorthodox-Christian religious minorities (along with Jews), but made the Bible Students the object of particularly intense persecution, including such extensive incarceration that a distinct badge was assigned to them.[2][3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Background[edit]
Jehovah's Witnesses came into conflict with the Nazi regime because they refused to salute Adolf Hitler with the traditional "Heil Hitler" salute, because it conflicted with their worship of Jehovah. In the bible it clearly states that you may worship only one God, The true God, Jehovah. Because refusing to salute Hitler was considered a crime, Jehovah's Witnesses were arrested, and their children attending school were expelled, detained and separated from their families. When Germany made military enlistment mandatory, Jehovah’s Witnesses were persecuted because they refused to bear arms. Being politically neutral, they also refused to vote in the 1936 elections.[4]
Based on Nuremberg Laws, Jehovah's Witnesses who were also classified as ethnic Jews wore a badge comprising a purple triangle superimposed on a yellow triangle.
See also[edit]
Identification in Nazi camps
Nazi concentration camp badges
Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany
Religion in Nazi Germany
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Johannes S. Wrobel, Jehovah’s Witnesses in National Socialist Concentration Camps, 1933 – 45, Religion, State & Society, Vol. 34, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 89-125 "The concentration camp prisoner category ‘Bible Student’ at times apparently included a few members from small Bible Student splinter groups, as well as adherents of other religious groups which played only a secondary role during the time of the National Socialist regime, such as Adventists, Baptists and the New Apostolic community (Garbe 1999, pp. 82, 406; Zeiger, 2001, p. 72). Since their numbers in the camps were quite small compared with the total number of Jehovah’s Witness prisoners, I shall not consider them separately in this article. Historian Antje Zeiger (2001, p. 88) writes about Sachsenhausen camp: ‘In May 1938, every tenth prisoner was a Jehovah’s Witness. Less than one percent of the Witnesses included other religious nonconformists (Adventists, Baptists, pacifists), who were placed in the same prisoner classification.’"
2.Jump up ^ MoreOrLess. "Bibelforscher". Cesnur.org. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
3.Jump up ^ "Holocaust Revealed". Holocaust Revealed. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
4.Jump up ^ King, Christine. “Leadership Lessons from History: Jehovah’s Witnesses.” The International Journal of Leadership in Public Services 7, no. 2 (2011): 178–185. doi:http://ezproxy.arcadia.edu:2075/10.1108/17479881111160168.
External links[edit]
US Holocaust Memorial Museum summary
"Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany" University of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
"Jehovah's Witnesses in National Socialist concentration camps, 1933-45, by Johannes S. Wrobel, Religion, State and Society vol. 34, no. 2 (June 2006), 89-125
Purple Triangles: A Story of Spiritual Resistance by Jolene Chu, originally published in Judaism Today, No. 12, Spring 1999
Purple Triangle: An Untold Story of the Holocaust
They Triumphed Over Persecution, The Watchtower March 1, 2003
Garbe, Detlef (Detlef Garbe 2008). Between Resistance and Martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich. Washington, DC, and Madison, Wisconsin: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in association with University of Wisconsin Press. Check date values in: |date= (help)
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (Distributor) (1991). Purple Triangles (VHS). United States of America: Starlock Pictures.
  


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Purple triangle

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 Purple triangle
The purple triangle was a concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify Bibelforscher (the German name for Jehovah's Witnesses) in Nazi Germany. A small number of Adventists, Baptists, Bible Student splinter groups, and pacifists (combined less than one percent) were also identified by the badge.[1] Nazism opposed unorthodox-Christian religious minorities (along with Jews), but made the Bible Students the object of particularly intense persecution, including such extensive incarceration that a distinct badge was assigned to them.[2][3]


Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Background[edit]
Jehovah's Witnesses came into conflict with the Nazi regime because they refused to salute Adolf Hitler with the traditional "Heil Hitler" salute, because it conflicted with their worship of Jehovah. In the bible it clearly states that you may worship only one God, The true God, Jehovah. Because refusing to salute Hitler was considered a crime, Jehovah's Witnesses were arrested, and their children attending school were expelled, detained and separated from their families. When Germany made military enlistment mandatory, Jehovah’s Witnesses were persecuted because they refused to bear arms. Being politically neutral, they also refused to vote in the 1936 elections.[4]
Based on Nuremberg Laws, Jehovah's Witnesses who were also classified as ethnic Jews wore a badge comprising a purple triangle superimposed on a yellow triangle.
See also[edit]
Identification in Nazi camps
Nazi concentration camp badges
Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany
Religion in Nazi Germany
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Johannes S. Wrobel, Jehovah’s Witnesses in National Socialist Concentration Camps, 1933 – 45, Religion, State & Society, Vol. 34, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 89-125 "The concentration camp prisoner category ‘Bible Student’ at times apparently included a few members from small Bible Student splinter groups, as well as adherents of other religious groups which played only a secondary role during the time of the National Socialist regime, such as Adventists, Baptists and the New Apostolic community (Garbe 1999, pp. 82, 406; Zeiger, 2001, p. 72). Since their numbers in the camps were quite small compared with the total number of Jehovah’s Witness prisoners, I shall not consider them separately in this article. Historian Antje Zeiger (2001, p. 88) writes about Sachsenhausen camp: ‘In May 1938, every tenth prisoner was a Jehovah’s Witness. Less than one percent of the Witnesses included other religious nonconformists (Adventists, Baptists, pacifists), who were placed in the same prisoner classification.’"
2.Jump up ^ MoreOrLess. "Bibelforscher". Cesnur.org. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
3.Jump up ^ "Holocaust Revealed". Holocaust Revealed. Retrieved 2012-12-29.
4.Jump up ^ King, Christine. “Leadership Lessons from History: Jehovah’s Witnesses.” The International Journal of Leadership in Public Services 7, no. 2 (2011): 178–185. doi:http://ezproxy.arcadia.edu:2075/10.1108/17479881111160168.
External links[edit]
US Holocaust Memorial Museum summary
"Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany" University of Minnesota's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
"Jehovah's Witnesses in National Socialist concentration camps, 1933-45, by Johannes S. Wrobel, Religion, State and Society vol. 34, no. 2 (June 2006), 89-125
Purple Triangles: A Story of Spiritual Resistance by Jolene Chu, originally published in Judaism Today, No. 12, Spring 1999
Purple Triangle: An Untold Story of the Holocaust
They Triumphed Over Persecution, The Watchtower March 1, 2003
Garbe, Detlef (Detlef Garbe 2008). Between Resistance and Martyrdom: Jehovah's Witnesses in the Third Reich. Washington, DC, and Madison, Wisconsin: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in association with University of Wisconsin Press. Check date values in: |date= (help)
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (Distributor) (1991). Purple Triangles (VHS). United States of America: Starlock Pictures.
  


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Knocking (film)

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Knocking is a 2006 documentary film directed by Joel Engardio [1] and Tom Shepard that focuses on the civil liberties fought for by Jehovah's Witnesses. It focuses primarily on the stories of three Jehovah's Witnesses, and how their lives demonstrate three fundamental Witness teachings that have affected society in general: Conscientious objection, and rejection of blood transfusions and saluting the flag.
Knocking won the jury award for best documentary at the 2006 USA Film Festival in Dallas and the audience award for best documentary at the 2006 Indianapolis International Film Festival. It has been shown at film festivals in Trenton, New Jersey; Flint, Michigan; Cleveland, Ohio; Reno, Nevada; East Lansing, Michigan.
Knocking was first televised on the PBS series Independent Lens on May 22, 2007. It was also broadcast on the Australian television program Compass on May 18, 2008. The documentary is also available on DVD.


Contents  [hide]
1 Main characters
2 DVD lecture series
3 Film Festival awards
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Main characters[edit]
Lillian GobitasAs a girl in Pennsylvania, she and thousands of other Witness children's refusal to salute the flag of the United States initiated controversy that led to a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court ruling on freedom of religion.Joseph KemplerBorn a Jew, he converted to the Jehovah's Witness faith after observing their integrity alongside Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. After converting, Kempler remained distant from his daughter who had been raised by Jewish relatives. To draw his family closer together, Kempler took them on a trip to Europe to see his home country and visit the Melk and Auschwitz concentration camps.Seth ThomasA 23-year-old Witness who, despite the risk and opposition from non-Witness relatives, refused blood transfusions with his liver transplant operation. While initially refused treatment by the Baylor University Medical Center of Texas, surgeons with the University of Southern California University Hospital in Los Angeles agreed to perform the operation, believing that research in bloodless surgery is necessary and should be explored.
DVD lecture series[edit]
The DVD includes a series of lectures pertaining to Jehovah's Witnesses in which lawyers, doctors, historians and Witness elders discuss various topics including blood transfusions, Witness legal rights and their legal history, Witnesses during Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and internal matters within congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Film Festival awards[edit]
Best Documentary, Jury Award, 2006 USA Film Festival (Dallas)
Best Documentary, Jury Award, 2006 Trenton Film Festival (New Jersey)
Best Documentary, Audience Award, 2006 Indianapolis International Film Festival
Best First Film, Jury Award, 2006 Long Island International Film Expo (New York)
Official Selection, 2006 Cleveland International Film Festival
See also[edit]
Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs
List of Holocaust films
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Miller, Lisa, Newsweek, May 28, 2007, Belief Watch: Witness, http://www.newsweek.com/id/34541
External links[edit]
Official site
Knocking site for Independent Lens on PBS
Knocking Study Guide PDF
Knocking at the Internet Movie Database
  


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Knocking is a 2006 documentary film directed by Joel Engardio [1] and Tom Shepard that focuses on the civil liberties fought for by Jehovah's Witnesses. It focuses primarily on the stories of three Jehovah's Witnesses, and how their lives demonstrate three fundamental Witness teachings that have affected society in general: Conscientious objection, and rejection of blood transfusions and saluting the flag.
Knocking won the jury award for best documentary at the 2006 USA Film Festival in Dallas and the audience award for best documentary at the 2006 Indianapolis International Film Festival. It has been shown at film festivals in Trenton, New Jersey; Flint, Michigan; Cleveland, Ohio; Reno, Nevada; East Lansing, Michigan.
Knocking was first televised on the PBS series Independent Lens on May 22, 2007. It was also broadcast on the Australian television program Compass on May 18, 2008. The documentary is also available on DVD.


Contents  [hide]
1 Main characters
2 DVD lecture series
3 Film Festival awards
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Main characters[edit]
Lillian GobitasAs a girl in Pennsylvania, she and thousands of other Witness children's refusal to salute the flag of the United States initiated controversy that led to a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court ruling on freedom of religion.Joseph KemplerBorn a Jew, he converted to the Jehovah's Witness faith after observing their integrity alongside Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. After converting, Kempler remained distant from his daughter who had been raised by Jewish relatives. To draw his family closer together, Kempler took them on a trip to Europe to see his home country and visit the Melk and Auschwitz concentration camps.Seth ThomasA 23-year-old Witness who, despite the risk and opposition from non-Witness relatives, refused blood transfusions with his liver transplant operation. While initially refused treatment by the Baylor University Medical Center of Texas, surgeons with the University of Southern California University Hospital in Los Angeles agreed to perform the operation, believing that research in bloodless surgery is necessary and should be explored.
DVD lecture series[edit]
The DVD includes a series of lectures pertaining to Jehovah's Witnesses in which lawyers, doctors, historians and Witness elders discuss various topics including blood transfusions, Witness legal rights and their legal history, Witnesses during Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and internal matters within congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Film Festival awards[edit]
Best Documentary, Jury Award, 2006 USA Film Festival (Dallas)
Best Documentary, Jury Award, 2006 Trenton Film Festival (New Jersey)
Best Documentary, Audience Award, 2006 Indianapolis International Film Festival
Best First Film, Jury Award, 2006 Long Island International Film Expo (New York)
Official Selection, 2006 Cleveland International Film Festival
See also[edit]
Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs
List of Holocaust films
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Miller, Lisa, Newsweek, May 28, 2007, Belief Watch: Witness, http://www.newsweek.com/id/34541
External links[edit]
Official site
Knocking site for Independent Lens on PBS
Knocking Study Guide PDF
Knocking at the Internet Movie Database
  


Categories: Documentary films about religion
American documentary films
Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses





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Joel P. Engardio (born September 17, 1972) is a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner. He ran for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in San Francisco's District 7 in 2012 and lost.


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Joel P. Engardio (born September 17, 1972) is a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner. He ran for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in San Francisco's District 7 in 2012 and lost.


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