-Caveat Lector-
I am fully aware that the revisionists have now decided that Pius
collaborated with the Nazis, etc. This is an article of what was
said at the time by those in a position to know that just came out
today. I personally think the new found guilt of the Vatican has
much to do with wanting even more reparations and the extortion of
huge sums of money. Maybe the Poles should do the same to the Jews
who collaborated with the Soviets resulting in even more deaths to
the Polish people. I certainly hope they do so for 3 million
Polish Roman Catholics went to the death camps and this started
long before any Jews there met that same fate. Why didn't the
Jews save the Poles from both the Germans and the Soviets? I do
not think it was possible for anyone to do that for if a Pope had
such power, JPII could stop the 40 million abortions.
~Amelia~
For the Record
by Joseph Sobran
Nothing, it seems, can dispel the notion that Pope Pius XII
maintained a "shameful silence" about the persecution of Jews
during World War II. But Ralph McInerny, in his book The Defamation
of Pius XII, quotes what Jews, prominent and otherwise, were saying
at the time.
"Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught
on liberty," said Albert Einstein in 1940.
In 1942 London's Jewish Chronicle remarked: "A word of sincere and
earnest appreciation is due from Jews to the Vatican for its
intervention in Berlin and Vichy on behalf of their tortured
co-religionists in France.... It was a step urged, to their honor,
by a number of Catholics, but for which we may be sure the Holy
Father himself, with his intense humanity and his clear sighted
understanding of the true and deadly implications of the assaults
on the Jewish people, needed no prompting."
Dr. Alexander Shafran, chief rabbi of Romania, wrote in 1944: "In
these hard times our thoughts turn more than ever with respectful
gratitude to the Sovereign Pontiff, who has done so much for Jews
in general.... In our worst hours of trial, the generous aid and
noble support of the Holy See ... has been decisive. It is not easy
to find the proper words to express the relief and solace which the
magnanimous gesture of the Supreme Pontiff has given us, in
offering a large subsidy in order to alleviate the sufferings of
the deported Jews. Roumanian Jewry will never forget these facts of
historical importance."
After the Allies liberated Rome in 1944, a Jewish Brigade Group
said in its Bulletin: "To the everlasting glory of the people of
Rome and the Roman Catholic Church we can state that the fate of
the Jews was alleviated by their truly Christian offers of
assistance and shelter. Even now, many still remain in the
religious homes and houses which opened their doors to protect them
from deportation to certain death."
One survivor, quoted in a Hebrew daily in Israel, said: "If we have
been rescued, if Jews are still alive in Rome, come with us and
thank the Pope in the Vatican."
A committee of the American Jewish Welfare Board, wrote to Pius
himself: "We have received reports from our military chaplains in
Italy of the aid and protection to Italian Jews by the Vatican,
priests, and church institutions during the Nazi occupation of the
country. We are deeply moved by this extraordinary display of
Christian love - the more so as we know the risk incurred by those
who afforded shelter to Jews.... From the bottom of our hearts we
send you the assurances of undying gratitude."
The elders of one liberated camp went to Rome and presented Pius
with a letter: "Now that the victorious Allied troops have broken
our chains and liberated us from captivity and danger, may we, the
Jewish internees of Ferramonti, be permitted to express our deepest
and devoted thanks for the comfort and help which Your Holiness
deigned to grant us with fatherly concern and infinite kindness
throughout our years of internment and persecution.... In doing so
Your Holiness has as the first and highest authority on earth
fearlessly raised his universally respected voice, in the face of
our powerful enemies, in order to defend openly our rights to the
dignity of man.... When we were threatened with deportation to
Poland in 1942, Your Holiness extended his fatherly hand to protect
us, and stopped the transfer of the Jews interned in Italy, thereby
saving us from almost certain death. With deep confidence and hope
that the work of Your Holiness may be crowned with further success,
we beg to express our heartfelt thanks while we pray to the
Almighty: May Your Holiness reign for many years on this Holy See
and exert your beneficent influence over the destiny of the
nations."
A few months later the World Jewish Congress sent a telegram to the
Holy See thanking it for its protection "under difficult conditions
to the persecuted Jews in German dominated Hungary."
The chief rabbi of Jerusalem, Isaac Herzog, said: "I thank the Pope
and the Church from the bottom of my heart for all the help they
have afforded."
Moshe Sharett, a leading Zionist, summed up his personal interview
with Pius: "I told him that my first duty was to thank him, and
through him, the Catholic Church, on behalf of the Jewish public,
for all they had done in the various countries to rescue Jews, to
save children, and Jews in general. We are deeply grateful to the
Catholic Church for what she did in those countries to help save
our brothers."
Dr. Leon Kubowitzky of the World Jewish Council offered a large
monetary donation to the Vatican "in recognition of the work of the
Holy See in rescuing Jews from Fascist and Nazi persecutions."
Raffaele Cantoni of Italy's Jewish Welfare Committee said: "The
Catholic Church and the papacy have given proof that they have
saved as many Jews as they could."
These noble and moving words require little comment. I record them
here for the honor of Pius, the Catholic Church, and the good men
who uttered them.
August 25, 2001
Joe Sobran is a nationally syndicated columnist. He also writes
"Washington Watch" for The Wanderer, a weekly Catholic newspaper,
and edits SOBRAN'S, a monthly newsletter of his essays and columns.
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