[Dr. Eckleburg]

I am familiar with the sacrifices (including in many cases their lives) that many Catholics and Lutherans made in many Nazi countries protecting the Jews, I have NEVER heard of a SINGLE Calvinist who showed this type of moral character. Perhaps they were all in Geneva helping the Nazis hide their plunder.

I know one of those Genevans who plundered Jewish treasures. He's a Roman Catholic.

Calvinists, unlike so many in Rome, don't go around crowing about the Jews they saved when Pope Pious XII was selling the entire race down the river by making pacts with the devil.

A PROTESTANT TOWN'S "CONSPIRACY OF GOOD" IN VICHY FRANCE

Chambon-Sur-Lignon, France: The mostly Protestant villagers of this tiny mountain plateau didn't talk about it at the time. Today, they still mostly don't talk about it.

But during World War II, in defiance of the Vichy and Nazi regimes, they hid some 4,000 Jews, many of them children.

Ordinary French farmers and shopkeepers risked their lives to rescue Jews from the Holocaust in the largest communal effort of its kind in Europe. What they did has been largely ignored or forgotten in France, experts say.

Yet in Israel, Chambon is one of two European towns honored at Yad Vashem, the official Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. Opposite a stone Protestant church in this French hamlet sits a plaque presented by Jews to "the righteous."...

Rooted in Huguenot tradition - Chambon has unusual roots as a town. Most locals are Huguenot descendents - Protestants driven out of Catholic France in the 17th century. Those not fleeing or sent to hard labor hid in the mountains, living off their wits, and living inside the Bible. They were deeply devout and studied Scriptures daily. They identified with the persecuted children of Israel, developed powerful narratives based on the parable of the Good Samaritan, of sanctuary, of the Pauline teaching that "faith without works is dead," and they retained strong skepticism of worldly authority...

[blue-duncan]

"I am familiar with the sacrifices (including in many cases their lives) that many Catholics and Lutherans made in many Nazi countries protecting the Jews, I have NEVER heard of a SINGLE Calvinist who showed this type of moral character. Perhaps they were all in Geneva helping the Nazis hide their plunder."

wagglebee needs to broaden his reading. Alex, you beat me by seconds. I had this ready and was interrupted by a client.

It happened one Wednesday morning in February 1944. Corrie was ill with flu at the time. A Dutchman whom Corrie did not know asked for some money. He said he needed it urgently to save some Jews. Corrie did not feel sure about him, but could not risk letting down any Jews. It turned out later that the Dutchman was working for the Germans. She went back to bed because she was so unwell. Suddenly the buzzer sounded. All the guests piled into the secret room. Some Gestapo officers and two Dutch Nazis burst into the house. They took all the ten Boom family into the living-room. Corrie's brother Willem happened to be in the house that day, as well as some Dutch people who knew nothing about the Jews. One of the Gestapo took Corrie into another room. "Where are the Jews?" he asked. "There aren't any Jews here," answered Corrie. She hated telling lies, but surely that was better than allowing people to be murdered, she thought. The policeman hit her, repeating the question, but Corrie did not answer. "Where is the secret room, them?" he asked, keeping on at her and hitting her again and again. Corrie felt blood in her mouth. She was so ill, and felt faint. "Lord Jesus, help me," she cried out. "If you use that name again, I'll kill you," said the policeman. But he stopped beating her and took her back to the others. Next he started on Betsie. When she came back she also was bruised and bleeding. All this time, German soldiers were searching the house, smashing open cupboards and doors in an effort to find the secret room. But they could not find it, and after half an hour they gave up. "All right," said the officer in charge, "take this lot to the police station, and set a guard outside the house. If anyone is here they will starve to death." At the police station, Corrie and her family had to spend the rest of the day sitting on the floor of a large room. Many other people had been arrested at the same time, including Pickwick. The Dutch policeman named Rolf came into the room. "Let's have it quiet in here," he shouted. "Toilets are outside at the back. You may go out one at a time under escort." Then he bent down quickly and whispered in Willem's ear, "You can tear up any papers you don't want the police to see, and flush them down the toilet." Willem passed this on to the others who needed to know. At home, every evening at about nine o'clock Father ten Boom always held family prayers. Here, under arrest, a group gathered round him to do the same. There was no Bible, but Father ten Boom knew much of it by heart anyway. In his deep voice he quoted some words from Psalm 119: "You are my hiding place and my shield: I hope in your word.... Hold me up, and I shall be safe." His faith in God gave the others comfort and strength.

http://www.soon.org.uk/true_stories/holocaust.htm