Honor for late French cardinal who saved Jews during Holocaust

May 20, 2015

The plaza outside Toulouse Cathedral in France was dedicated to the memory of Cardinal Jules-Gérard Saliège on May 12.

Pinchas Goldschmidt, chief rabbi of Moscow and president of the Conference of European Rabbis, attended the ceremony in honor of Cardinal Saliège, who denounced the deportation of Jews in a 1942 pastoral letter and directed priests and nuns to hide Jews.

Pascal Mailhos, the prefect of Toulouse, said at the ceremony that most of the members of his family were saved because of the actions of Cardinal Saliège, who served as archbishop of the southern French city from 1928 to 1956.

 

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Further information:

• La lista di Saliège (L’Osservatore Romano, p. 4)
• Monsignor Jules-Gérard Saliège (Yad Vashem)