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Holocaust Chronology of 1937

January 1937 Start of the Aryanization of the economy — Jewish owners forced, without legal basis, to sell their businesses, in most cases considerably below the value of their goods.January 1The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VOMI; Ethnic German Assistance Office) is founded to act as an intermediary between Berlin and ethnic Germans (from nations other than Germany) who are to be resettled in Eastern Europe. January 26Jews prohibited from working in any office in Germany... read article

The Vatican & the Holocaust: Understanding the Vatican During the Nazi Period

It is not always fully appreciated that the Vatican was neutral during the Second World War, having committed itself from the very outset to a policy of conciliation that marked church diplomacy in the inter-war period... read article

The Jewish Virtual Library - Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements of contributors of material to the Jewish Virtual Library... read article

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements of contributors to the Jewish Virtual Library... read article

Holocaust Chronology of 1939

A chronology of events related to the Holocaust during 1938... read article

Pope Benedict XVI

Joseph Alois Ratzinger was elected as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church on April 19, 2005 and formally installed as Pope Benedict XVI during the Mass of Papal Installation on April 24 of that year. In February 2013, Pope Benedict announced that he would resign from the papacy, citing his advanced age and declining health as reasons for the first such resignation in six centuries. In March 2013, Pope Benedict was succeeded by Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis)... read article

Bibliography & Bookstore - The Holocaust, Nazi Germany and World War II

List of books related to the Holocaust and World War II... read article

Bibliography & Bookstore: The Holocaust & World War II

List of books related to the Holocaust and World War Two... read article

Roosevelt Expresses Concern About Anti-Jewish Feeling in the Church

President Roosevelt expresses his concern about anti-Jewish feeling in churches and the anti-Catholic attitudes that may follow... read article

Josef Mueller

Josef Mueller, the son of a poor farmer, was born in Steinwiesen, Germany, in 1898. He became a lawyer in Munich and joined Abwehr soon after the outbreak of the Second World War... read article

Christian-Jewish Relations: Anti-Semitism is Not a Christian Value

We condemn all discriminatory measures against any religious or racial group. We proclaim with Pope Pius XI that "it is not possible for Christians to have any part in anti-Semitism." By attacking a people from whom Christ was born, anti-Semitism is manifestly anti-Christian in its roots... read article

Angelo Donati

DONATI, ANGELO (1885–1960), Resistance activist of the Holocaust period. Donati was born into a well-known Jewish family in Modena, Italy. After World War I he settled in Paris, where he created the Banco Italo-Francese di Credito while remaining an Italian citizen. In 1931 he brought *Jabotinsky together with the Italian government to open a naval school for *Betar in Civitavecchia. After the Germans occupied northern France in 1940, he found refuge in Nice, which was occupied by the Italians in November 1942... read article

Pierre-Marie Benoît

Father Pierre-Marie Benoît was a French national who until 1940 lived in the Capuchin monastery in Rome. When war between France and Italy was clearly inevitable, he returned to his homeland and moved into the Capuchin monastery in Marseilles. The Jewish laws enacted by the Vichy government set in motion a tumultuous and active chapter in Father Benoît's life. Out of a profound commitment to humanitarian values, Father Benoît pledged himself to protecting Jewish refugees... read article

Herbert Kappler

Biography of SS officer Herbert Kappler who was convicted of war crimes for his role in the Ardeatine Massacre in Rome... read article

Pope John Paul II: Pilgrimage to Israel

The visit of Pope John Paul II to Israel in March 2000... read article

Pierre Marie Benoît

BENOÎT, PIERRE-MARIE° (1895–1990), French priest and Righteous Among the Nations. Born Pierre Péteul, in Bourg d'Iré (Marne-et-Loire), France, to a family of flour millers, Benoît entered the Capuchin-Franciscan order in 1913. After a tour of duty in the French army during World War I, where he was wounded, he took up theological studies, earning a doctorate in theology and teaching at the Capuchin college in Rome. With Italy's entry into World War II in June 1940, he was sent back to France, and took up residence at the Capuchin convent in Marseilles, at 51 Croix-de-Regnier Street... read article

La Civiltà Cattolica

CIVILTÀ CATTOLICA, LA, official Catholic bi-monthly. Founded in 1849 by Jesuit writers, and published first in Naples (1850) then in Rome, this review has been the faithful interpreter of papal thought and gained an influence far beyond Catholic circles. Until 1933, its contributors also remained strictly anonymous... read article

Maximilian Kolbe

Biography of Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger at the Auschwitz and was canonized by Pope Paul VI... read article

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Pope John Paul II: Relations with Jews and Israel

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John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyla on May 18, 1920, in the Polish town of Wadowice, where he had Jewish friends and neighbors and was an eyewitness to the Holocaust. A few months before the war ended, Wojtyla rescued a starving 13-year-old Jewish girl at a train station by carrying her to the rail car in which he was traveling, feeding her and covering her with his coat... read article

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