Nazis Archives

Film on Austrian priest killed by Nazis gets Iowa world premiere

Catholic News Service, Church in Europe
May 13, 2019

The film “Otto Neururer: Hope through Darkness,” based on the life of the first Austrian priest killed in a Nazi concentration camp, had its world premiere recently in Iowa.

Polish family praised by Pope Francis murdered for hiding Jews in WW2

Catholic News Service, Church in Europe
Dec 6, 2018

For almost 2 years, the Ulmas secretly gave shelter to eight Jews, hiding them from the murderous Nazi regime. Wiktoria and Jozef Ulma had six children.

On 1938 pogrom anniversary, German cardinal condemns anti-Jewish violence

Catholic News Service, Church in Europe
Nov 14, 2018

Cardinal Reinhard Marx protested against the increase in violence against Jews in Germany during a remembrance ceremony marking the 80th Anniversary of the 1938 Kristallnacht and November pogrom in Wurzburg.

Archival discovery at Catholic U. leads to Kristallnacht remembrance

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Nov 8, 2018

It was the discovery in The Catholic University of America’s archives in 2004 of an old, scratched record, labeled only “Catholic Protest Against Nazis — Nov. 16, 1938,” that set the wheels in motion for a long-overdue reconsideration of Catholic attitudes toward anti-Semitism in general, and Kristallnacht in particular.

Pope honors victims of Nazis, communists during Vilnius visit

Church in Europe, Pope in the Baltics
Sep 23, 2018

Pope Francis paid homage to both the victims of the Holocaust in Lithuania and those persecuted during the country’s Soviet occupation Sunday, condemning the “spiritual sickness” of forgetting the lessons from the past.