1946 Document on Jewish Children Tells a Different Story

Zenit ^ | January 12, 2005

[It's me]

This is to set the story straight.

Anyone care to take back the anti-Catholic, anti-Pope, anit-Vatican remarks they made concerning this topic a few weeks back?

How long before the anti-Catholic people come out? Bet's anyone?

[It's me]

Isaac Herzog, the chief rabbi of Jerusalem, addressed a letter to Pope Pius XII in which the former wrote: "The Jewish people very much remember with profound gratitude the help given by the Holy See to the people that suffered during the Nazi persecution."

[It's me]

How about another quote:

Herzog emphasized how Pius XII "has worked to banish anti-Semitism in many countries" and concluded with an invocation: "God willing, may history remember that when everything was dark for our people, His Holiness lit a light of hope for them."

[It's me]

For your information.

[ThermoNuclearWarrior]

Jews should have fought back in World War 2. MOST didn't do anything at all to help their cause! I think many Jews do hold responsibility for not fighting back in WW2.

I support Israel now, but a lot of Jews won't do a damn thing to do anything to help themselves. Look at the majority of Jews in this Country, the U.S.A. This will be taken as antisemitic, which I am not. But many Jews have shown they won't fight for anything. Israel is the last hope of normal conservative Jews.

[ambrose]

"Fighting back" is a bit tricky if, after escaping from the Nazis, you can only look forward to being lynched by the local peasants.

[Dog Gone]

Who is Zenit? Knowing the source and their agenda (if any) is useful in evaluating any article they publish.

[LauraleeBraswell]

How could they fight back! Hitler Banned the guns! And you should never ever hold the victim responsible! That's like saying a rape victim holds responsibility because she shouldn't have been out that rime of night.

I don't think your anti Semitic, just VERY misguided.

[LauraleeBraswell]

Hindsight is 20/20.

[cyborg]

Hitler's first action was to enact gun laws against undesirables. Jews weren't allowed to own guns. If you're talking about liberal jewish people, I'll agree. They're a spineless lot.

[BikerNYC]

I think many Jews do hold responsibility for not fighting back in WW2.

Would you say the same thing about the slaves during slave-times?

[Senator Pardek]

But after careful research, ZENIT discovered that the document, in fact, was not of the Holy Office and did not bear evidence of the reported date.

A Kinko's in Texas?

[little jeremiah]

What about the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto? There were also Jewish partisan guerrila fighters, from what I've read. Not many, but some.

If no one has fire arms, self defense is all theoretical, anyway.

[ThermoNuclearWarrior]

I think that Jews could have fought back much fiercer than they did. How do 6 million Jewish people be killed without a significant fight? They made a stand in Poland after ever Jew there knew they were dead, but that wasn't enough.

I think Jews could have done more and I think the majority of the people in Israel agree. How can over 6 million people be killed without a significant organization or offensive fight be made?

Jews made big mistakes at that time and so have almost all other people and nations of the world.

[LauraleeBraswell]

3 million

[cyborg]

What about the millions of others killed in the camps? They were in the same situation as Jews, without support and without arms.

[LauraleeBraswell]

I'm sorry, but saying the Jews hold some responsibility for their mass extermination because they didn't fight back hard enough is an absurdity.

[ThermoNuclearWarrior]

The Jewish people had the most ineffective opposition to any military action during World War 2 than any other ethnic groups in history. Stop acting like it didn't happen.

The uprising in Poland could have happened in many other places if there had been enough Jewish people to step up. Which there wasn't.

The fact is that most Jewish people didn't do a damn thing to help win WW2! Jews did less than any other group, with their numbers, than has any group I can think of recently.

Even the Israelis don't do enough. Maybe it's our governments fault but the the world must start doing what we should. ..

[It's me]

You seem to want to deny the truth to this article? Why?

Re-read the article. It seems that they did alot more "sleuthing" to uncover the truth than the Italian news did.

[bananarepublican23]

People didn't think they were being shipped off to death camps.
They thought they were getting hot showers instead of gas chambers.
Saying that the jews made a "big mistake" by being massacred by their own country is such a ridiculous statement it doesn't even deserve a response.