Recently released documents from the so-called "closed period" of the Vatican Archives are once again revealing the heroism of Pope Pius XII and his care for Jewish people who were persecuted during the Second World War. The Telegraph's Nick Squires writes, "The document to cast Pius in the most flattering light is a letter from October 1944, after Italy signed an armistice with the Allies and switched sides, in which former inmates expressed their gratitude for his support during their imprisonment. 'While in nearly all the countries of Europe we were persecuted, imprisoned and threatened with death because we belong to the Jewish people and profess the Jewish faith, Your Holiness not only sent notable and generous gifts to our camp through the apostolic nuncio...but also showed your fatherly interest in our physical and spiritual well-being,' they wrote in German.
'(You) intrepidly raised your universally venerated voice against our enemies – still so powerful at that time – to openly support our rights to human dignity. When in 1942 we were under the threat of deportation to Poland, Your Holiness extended your fatherly hand to protect us and prevented the deportation of the Jews imprisoned in Italy, thereby saving us from almost certain death.'
This is more bad news for historical revisionists such as Deborah Dwork, Director of Clark University's Strassler Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies. In
a previous post I refuted her asinine assertion that that Pope Pius XII "failed Europe's Jews miserably, unconscionably." And I explained
here why her accusation is so damnable.
I would ask Ms. Dwork to apologize for her slander of Pius XII. But what would be the point? Some people are prisoners of their own deeply-held bias. And no amount of historical proof will ever penetrate her wall of conviction. But honest people will be moved at Pius XII's efforts on behalf of the Jewish People.
3 comments:
I won't be holding my breath for an apology either. It would be nice if Dwork could re-think her position. But Clark obviously doesn't pay her to think.
Dwork is detremined to use history as bigotry. She's not a historian. She's an ideologue.
I'm a Senior in High School living in Fitchburg. I was thinking about applying to Clark. But thanks to Dwork's anti-Catholic bigotry, I will be applying elsewhere. Thanks for bringing this matter to my attention. I'll be sure to tell my friends, two of whom have been considering Clark, that since they are Catholic they might wish to reconsider.
Again, thank you!
FHS 12'
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