Tag: Holocaust
Our Lenten Journey, April 7: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born into the Jewish faith, was an atheist, a doctor of philosophy and ultimately became a Carmelite...
New research details Catholic inmates at Auschwitz
WARSAW, Poland — A Polish researcher has published the first study of religious practices among Christian prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau, as the 75th anniversary of...
Smuggled out of Warsaw Ghetto, child spent five years with Catholic...
TEL AVIV, Israel — Krystyna Linden does not remember much about the first five years of her life, which she spent in a tiny...
Pope Francis denounces increasing violence against Jewish people
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis warned that violence against Jewish people, which reached a state of horror during World War II, is on the...
Padua Academy students get unique perspective in studying German resistance to...
WILMINGTON — Studying the Holocaust is nothing new in American schools. At Padua Academy, students in Barbara Markham’s history class spent a day with...
Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor dies in Poland; had visited Padua...
News outlets are reporting the death of Holocaust survivor and forgiveness advocate Eva Mozes Kor, who passed away while in Poland on an annual...