persecuted

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Persecuted by the Nazis and carefully watched by the Communist secret police in the former East Germany, the group struggled for decades to be given equivalent status to Germany’s other religious communities.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023

He also co-founded the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Persecuted that published news about communist persecutions.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2021

Museum of the Holocaust is staging an important exhibition entitled “Venerated, Persecuted, Forgotten: Victims of Nazism at FC Bayern Munich.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2019

Persecuted and and impoverished Afghan migrants, for example, used to try to get to Australia.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2015

“That is my least concern; I am, by a course of strange events, become the most miserable of mortals. Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me?”

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley