 By fighting for their right to live and worship as they choose, Jehovah s Witnesses won legal victories that protected civil liberties and free choice for all Americans. By refusing blood transfusions, but insisting on medical care, Jehovah s Witnesses risked their lives in pursuit of new bloodless technology now used on all types of patients. By resisting Hitler and his Nazi army, German Jehovah s Witnesses were sent to the concentration camps and became martyrs.