Awake!, “From Our Readers”
“The reader refers to statements in the “Declaration of Facts,” a resolution adopted in 1933 at a convention in Berlin, Germany. (See “Jehovah’s Witnesses—Courageous in the Face of Nazi Peril,” in the July 8, 1998, issue of “Awake!”) As the article noted, nothing said in the 1933 declaration was intended to express or condone hostility toward Jews, and we regret it if some statements give that impression today. If anyone back in the 1930’s interpreted the “Declaration of Facts” to mean that Jehovah’s Witnesses were anti-Semitic, this misimpression could easily have been corrected by observing the courageous and compassionate acts of individual Witnesses in behalf of Jews. Moreover, Watch Tower Society publications were among the first to expose and express outrage at the treatment of Jews in Europe.”
The whole of the editorial reply, signed “—ED.”, printed under the standing heading “From Our Readers” and the sub-heading “Not Anti-Semitic”, answering a reader who had written: “Thank you for not hiding things that you regret having said. Although I would like to have read an apology for this statement, your this-was-the-context explanation was adequate.”
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Note sur la fiabilité. Full page opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and the reply read and quoted in full; page taken from the pageNum marker. The reply is the magazine’s editorial answer, signed “—ED.”, and is given here complete so that nothing in it is left out.
Notes. A full-text search of the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 found no later publication that revisits the Declaration, so this 1999 note is the organisation's most recent published statement on it.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source. src-de33-g99-from-our-readers