bear witness

Example Sentences

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As early as the 1960s, when many survivors were too traumatized to bear witness, he spoke to students and other groups about the Holocaust—at first in general, later in personal terms.

From The Wall Street Journal

“How are we going to do this?” she asks her husband Eliot, through whose eyes readers bear witness to the story.

From The Wall Street Journal

And some simply bear witness to the grief that, almost a year later, still bubbles up.

From Los Angeles Times

The state legislature’s medical affairs committee’s first hearing on the bill last month saw hundreds of South Carolinians gathered to testify and bear witness.

From Salon

The statement adds that the artefacts "bear witness to the history of the encounter between faith and the cultures of the indigenous peoples".

From BBC