Connecticut rabbi: No one ‘did more to rescue Jews than Pius’
November 26, 2008
In comments that appear in the latest edition of Connecticut’s weekly Jewish newspaper, Rabbi Eric Silver of Temple Beth David in Cheshire, CT defended Pope Pius XII’s wartime actions. Following a recent Pave the Way Foundation symposium in Rome, Rabbi Silver said, ‘We studied the documents in the Vatican's archives and had eye-witness interviews, and what we learned was truly world-shaking. There is nobody who did more to rescue Jews than Pius.’ Silver added that Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann ‘in his diary records that his efforts are being frustrated by the pope; he just can’t prove it.’
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Further information:
- Pope Pius XII: The Case For-- and Against-- Canonization (Jewish Ledger)
- Pius and the question of leadership (Jewish Ledger)
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