THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Twelve
Refugee; Now in Jerusalem,
Tells of Visit at Vatican
Told by Pope Pius XII: "I Hope You Will Always Be Proud
to Be a Jew!"; Rome Jews Were Fed Kosher
Food Within Vatican Walls
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor) — With news from liberated
Rome telling of the assistance rendered by the Vatican to
Jews seeking escape from their Nazi captors, the following
account by a refugee recently_ arrived in Palestine aboard
•the Portugeese . liner "Nyassa" of . his own experience in
asking the intervention of Pope Pius XII for Jewish refugees,
contains additional testimony to •'
the Vatican's rescue efforts. The report and give it to the Secre-
refugee's account, published in tary of State who is dealing with
The Palestine Post, describes his the question. But now for you,
audience with the Pope:
my son. You are a young Jew. I
"About 80 people are waiting know what that means and I
(for the audience with Pope hope you will always be proud
Pius). Among them are many to be a Jew!'
German soldiers, in field uni- - "After having pronounced
form, their caps in their hands. these words in his pleasant
For about an hour I stand voice, the Pope lifts his hands to
around or pace the parquet ,floor give the usual benediction. But
among those warriors of Herr he stops, smiles and his wonder-
Hitler—probably on their way to ful fingers only touch my head."
Bengazi and Tripoli, anxious
not to miss the chance of taking
Kashruth at Vatican
a papal blessing with them for
NEW YORK (JPS)—When the
further heroic deeds.
Germans occupying Rome pro-
The Refugee's Turn
hibited the ritual slaughter of
"The Pope speaks to everybody
Jewish meat and poultry, the
—asking the soldiers in fluent
Vatican allowed shochtim. (kosh-
German from which part of the
er slaughterers) to slaughter
Reich they come and whether
meat within its walls; in accord-
they have a special wish . .
ance with Jewish law, Carey
"At last it is my turn. I step Longmire, New York Post war
forward, feeling very uneasy and correspondent, reports • from
shy. Then I kneel down on a Rome.
velvet cushion, bow over the
Six thousand to 7,000 Jews
Papal hand and breathe a kiss on were saved from death in Nazi
the ring ..
concentration camps by the Vati-
"Then I look up and address can and other Catholics in Rome,
him, stammering some Italian who sheltered them when Nazi
phrases.
police swept into the Jewish
"But the Pope interrupts me: quarters in Rome seizing fathers,
" 'My son, you can speak your mothers, infants and grandfath-
own language with me; you are ers for transportation to Ger-
German, too, aren't you?' "
many and Eastern. Europe, Mr.
" 'No, your Holiness, I was only Longmire reports. About 5,000
born in Germany. But I am not Roman Jews were herded into
a German any longer—I am a freight cars by the Nazis and
Jew.' "
sent to Germany. No trace of
" 'So you are a Jew, what can them has been found.
I do for you? Tell me, my son!' "
Leaders of Rome's Jewish
Asked for Report
community have expressed the
"I begin to explain why I have gratitude of their people to the
come. I report about the ship- Vatican and thousands of Cath-
wrecked Jewish refugees, saved olics who risked their lives . to
by Italian warships in the save Jewish friends. "Our. Cath-
Aegean Sea and now starving in olic brothers have done more for
a prisoner of war camp on one us than we can ever do to repay,"
of the islands. The Pope listens Ugo Foa, president of Rome's
carefully to my explanations of Jewish community, is quoted as
how to help these poor people saying.
either by taking them to Pales-
tine or by bringing them back to Men's Marriage Course
Italy to avoid epidemics and Offered at Jewish Center
further starvation. Then Pius
Men's Marriage Course begins
XII says:
on Wednesday nights and will
"'You have done well to come continue until July 12 at the
to .me and tell me this. I have Center. Betty K. Ketchum, mar-
heard about it before. • Come riage counselor, is in charge of
back tomorrow with a written this program.,
Plan International
Good Will Conclave
NEW YORK, (JTA)—An an-
nouncement that it plans to call
an international conference of
organizations of Christians and
Jews after the war was made by
the National Conference of
Christians and Jews, at the same
time that it released a report
stating that racial and religious
intolerance in this country is
waning.
Pointing out that organizations
similar to it are in existence in
Great Britain,. Canada and South
Africa, the conference said that
an international meeting would
aid in the establishment of inter-
national solidarity and would en-
courage and strengthen educa-
tion for better relations within
participating countries.
Discussing the problem of in-
tolerance here, • the conference
said that despite occasional
flare-ups of anti-Semitism in the
country, relations between the
three largest religious groups are
improving to an extent where
tolerance is becoming a folkway
in American society. Dr. Everett
R. Clinchy, president of the con-
ference, said that there is more
anti - Jewish, anti - Catholic and
anti-Protestant talk, but asserted
that this might mean only a
growing awareness of intolerance
rather than a manifestation of it.
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