Friday, June 10, 2022

Pope hosts Yad Vashem director at Vatican

There is a long history of the catholic church and antisemitism. 

You have to give some credit to the current Pope Francis for his efforts to improve relations between believers of the two faith and to address the issue.

If you are not familiar with Yad Vashem The World Holocaust Remembrance Center see e.g. here, here.

"Amid controversies concerning the Vatican’s Holocaust-era record, Pope Francis and the head of Israel’s state museum on the Holocaust, Yad Vashem, met for a first-of-its-kind talk.
Yad Vashem Director Dani Dayan met with the pope Thursday at his office in the Vatican. During their 30-minute talk, they spoke about ways to “bolster collaborative activities” in areas of “Holocaust remembrance, education and documentation, and to discuss efforts to fight antisemitism and racism worldwide,” Dayan’s office wrote in a statement.
Dayan thanked the pope for his 2020 decision to open the Vatican’s archives related to the wartime Pope Pius XII, whose critics say did too little to intervene on behalf of the 6 million Jews that the Nazis murdered in the Holocaust. ..."

Pope hosts Yad Vashem director at Vatican - The Jerusalem Post Pope Francis and the head of Israel’s state museum on the Holocaust, Yad Vashem, met for a first-of-its-kind talk.



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