The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, is to open the Oct. embassies are all backing it, among others. Holocaust Memorial as well as the Israeli and U.S. The Vatican, Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust research institute, the U.S. Pius’ legacy, and the revelations from the newly opened Vatican archives, are to be discussed at a major conference at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University next month that is notable because of its across-the-spectrum participant list and sponsorship. Kertzer said historians have been eagerly awaiting Coco’s book because as a Vatican archivist, Coco had access to a trove of Pius’ personal files that weren’t yet indexed and made available to scholars when the Vatican opened the Pius archives in March 2020. In a telephone interview Saturday, Kertzer said the letter could be significant because it could mark the first time a reference to Jews being gassed in ovens had been revealed in a letter he said would certainly have been brought to Pius’ attention. Pius’ supporters have long insisted that he couldn’t speak out strongly against the Nazis because of fears of reprisals. However, Coco noted that Koenig also urged the Holy See to not make public what he was revealing because he feared for his own life and the lives of the resistance sources who had provided the intelligence. “The novelty and importance of this document comes from this fact: that on the Holocaust, there is now the certainty that Pius XII was receiving from the German Catholic Church exact and detailed news about crimes being perpetrated against Jews,” Coco was quoted by Corriere as saying. “About 3,000-5,000 people were shot on the spot and 2,000- 5,000 people were taken to Bełżec,” the website says.Īccording to “The Pope at War,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning anthropologist David Kertzer, a top secretariat of state official, Monsignor Domenico Tardini, told the British envoy to the Vatican in mid-December that the pope couldn’t speak out about Nazi atrocities because the Vatican hadn’t been able to verify the information. 7-11, the city’s Jewish ghetto was liquidated. The memorial’s website reports that as many as 3,500 Jews from Rava Ruska had already been sent to Belzec earlier in 1942 and that from Dec. Written in German, the letter addresses Leiber as “Dear friend,” and goes on to report that the Nazis were killing up to 6,000 Jews and Poles daily from Rava Ruska, a town in pre-war Poland that is today in Ukraine, and transporting them to the Belzec death camp.Īccording to the Belzec memorial which opened in 2004, a total of 500,000 Jews perished at the camp. Lothar Koenig, to Pius’ secretary, a fellow German Jesuit named the Rev. 14, 1942, from the German Jesuit priest to Pius’ secretary which is contained in an upcoming book about the newly opened files of Pius’ pontificate by Giovanni Coco, a researcher and archivist in the Vatican’s Apostolic Archives.Ĭoco told Corriere that the letter was significant because it represented detailed correspondence about the Nazi extermination of Jews, including in ovens, from an informed church source in Germany who was part of the Catholic anti-Hitler resistance that was able to get otherwise secret information to the Vatican. SetPaintOrder(SnakeHead.class, SnakePart.class, Food.class) įor(int j = 1 j <= (h.trailCT - h.Corriere is reproducing a letter dated Dec. GreenfootImage baseImage = new GreenfootImage("board.jpg") Create a new world with 500x500 cells with a cell size of 15x15 pixels.ĪddObject(f, r.nextInt(500), r.nextInt(500)) * Constructor for objects of class SnakeWorld.
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