Todd M. Endelman
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781904113010
- eISBN:
- 9781800342606
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781904113010.003.0014
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter recounts 445,000 Jews who crowded into the Warsaw ghetto in which 2,000 Christians were of Jewish origin. It describes how Jewish converts enjoyed de facto a privileged social position ...
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This chapter recounts 445,000 Jews who crowded into the Warsaw ghetto in which 2,000 Christians were of Jewish origin. It describes how Jewish converts enjoyed de facto a privileged social position before the mass deportations of summer 1942 that ended the 'normal' life of the ghetto. It also talks about Józef Szerynski, a colonel in the Polish police before the war whom Adam Czerniaków appointed as the first commander of the ghetto police force. The chapter recounts how Szerynski surrounded himself with other converts, baptized Jews that were also conspicuous as hospital administrators and as heads of clinics and other public health units. It refers to Jewish converts who benefited from the assistance of the Catholic charity Caritas, which operated from the two parish churches in the ghetto.Less
This chapter recounts 445,000 Jews who crowded into the Warsaw ghetto in which 2,000 Christians were of Jewish origin. It describes how Jewish converts enjoyed de facto a privileged social position before the mass deportations of summer 1942 that ended the 'normal' life of the ghetto. It also talks about Józef Szerynski, a colonel in the Polish police before the war whom Adam Czerniaków appointed as the first commander of the ghetto police force. The chapter recounts how Szerynski surrounded himself with other converts, baptized Jews that were also conspicuous as hospital administrators and as heads of clinics and other public health units. It refers to Jewish converts who benefited from the assistance of the Catholic charity Caritas, which operated from the two parish churches in the ghetto.
Robert S. Wistrich
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781874774716
- eISBN:
- 9781800340725
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781874774716.003.0027
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter examines the material in four of the volumes published in the Actes et documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la seconde guerre mondiale. The main concern of this chapter is to examine how ...
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This chapter examines the material in four of the volumes published in the Actes et documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la seconde guerre mondiale. The main concern of this chapter is to examine how the Vatican responded to the predicament of the Jews (and also the Poles) during the Holocaust era. It begins with volume vi because this covers efforts of the Holy See to help victims of the war (especially baptized Jews) in the period between March 1939 and December 1940. The two parts of volume iii that concern Poland (in effect two separately published volumes on the same theme but chronologically divided) are treated next, since they deal predominantly with the relationship between the Vatican and the Poles. Finally, the chapter examines the letters of Pope Pius XII to the German bishops between 1939 and 1944, which are fundamentally different in character from the ‘normal’ documentation of the Vatican Secretariat of State.Less
This chapter examines the material in four of the volumes published in the Actes et documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la seconde guerre mondiale. The main concern of this chapter is to examine how the Vatican responded to the predicament of the Jews (and also the Poles) during the Holocaust era. It begins with volume vi because this covers efforts of the Holy See to help victims of the war (especially baptized Jews) in the period between March 1939 and December 1940. The two parts of volume iii that concern Poland (in effect two separately published volumes on the same theme but chronologically divided) are treated next, since they deal predominantly with the relationship between the Vatican and the Poles. Finally, the chapter examines the letters of Pope Pius XII to the German bishops between 1939 and 1944, which are fundamentally different in character from the ‘normal’ documentation of the Vatican Secretariat of State.
