Saint James Vicariate For Hebrew Speaking Catholics in Israel
Righteous Among The Nations
HaAretz: 'Pope Pius XII saved thousands of Jews'
HaAretz, the Israeli daily, in its English edition of July 7, 2010, carried a story on new research on Pope Pius XII that might change attitudes to the war-time Pope.
Ivan Wraneticz, Righteous Gentile, dies
Wraneticz, who was from the ex-Yugoslavia, hid Jews in his home during the Shoah and then immigrated to Israel. He was he chairman of the Association of Righteous Gentiles in Israel.
Ashes of a priest who saved Jews arrive in Odessa
Daniel, from the Jaffa community, sent us a report about Father Emeyan Kovach.
Martin Gilbert on Pope Pius XII
Distinguished English Jewish historian, Sir Martin Gilbert, has published an editorial in HaAretz (5.12.2008) urging all to wait patiently until the Vatican archives are opened so that the truth about Pope Pius XII's wartime activity can indeed be revealed. Gilbert, who is also an authority on Christians who saved Jews during the Shoah, reveals himself again as a voice of moderation.
Death of Irena Sendler - Righteous Pole
This morning, Monday 12.5.2008, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic, credited with saving 2500 Jewish children during the Shoah died in a Warsaw hospital. May she rest in peace... z"l.
Mother Maria - a Righteous among the Nations
On the occasion of Yom HaShoah, Tatiana from the Haifa community sends us an article about Mother Maria (Maria Elisaveta Scobtsova), one of the remarkable figures of the Russian Orthodox Church who was canonized by the Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 2004, together with her son Yiuri and a priest, Father Dimitri Klepinin and Ylia Fondaminski, all heroes of the resistance to the Nazi occupation in France.
