Nazis Archives

Catholic publisher reissuing book with release of Jagerstatter biopic

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Dec 22, 2019

With the release of a film biography of Blessed Franz Jagerstatter, the conscientious objector who was martyred by the Nazis, Orbis Books is reissuing its 10-year-old collection of the Austrian farmer’s letters and other writings from prison.

By Mark Pattison

Film on Austrian priest killed by Nazis gets Iowa world premiere

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.

By Dan Russo

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

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.

By Paulina Guzik

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

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.

By Catholic News Service

Archival discovery at Catholic U. leads to Kristallnacht remembrance

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.

By Mark Pattison

Pope honors victims of Nazis, communists during Vilnius visit

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.

By Claire Giangravè