THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Priest Documents Vatican Role
in Aiding Jews During Holocaust
NEW YORK — The
Catholic League for Reli-
gious and Civil Rights has
published a booklet which
claims to refute the belief
that Pope Pius XII was in-
different to the suffering of
the Jews during the Nazi
Holocaust.
Entitled "Pius XII's De-
fense of Jews an Others:
1944-45," the 36-page book-
let is written by Jesuit
Father Robert A. Graham,
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historican and former
ditor of America magazine
who has spent the past 15
years editing the Vatican's
World War II archives.
The work concludes that
"the Holy See did in fact
carry out its humanitarian
mission without distinction
of nationality, religion or
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wrote Fr. Graham, "is to do
violence to the historical re-
cord and to perpetuate a
gratuitous denigration of a
great humanitarian and
Pope."
The claim of the Pope's
indifference is attributa-
ble to German playw-
right Rolf Hochhuth,
whose "The Deputy"
falsely accused Pope
Pius of having failed to
act or even to speak out
against the Nazi at-
rocities, Fr. Graham says.
When Hochhuth's work
first appeared in 1963, the
historical data needed to re-
fute them were not yet
available, Fr. Graham says.
However, in an unprece-
dented move initiated by
Pope Paul VI, the Vatican
opened its archives to the
scrutiny of historians, the
result being a series of 10
volumes entitled "The Acts
and Documents of the Holy
See Relative to World War
II." Fr. Graham's mono-
graph summarizes volume
10, which focuses on the
Vatican's interventions on
behalf of the Jews during
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the last two years of the
war.
According to Fr. Graham,
the Vatican's efforts to alle-
viate suffering and to pro-
tect human life and human
rights included such activi-
ties as the involvement of
Church institutions in the
hiding of JQWS in their
flights to safety and the dis-
tribution of false docu-
ments, which in many cases
turned out to be life-saving
passports to freedom.
Fr. Graham documents
Vatican diplomatic efforts
to avert the shipment of
Jews to Nazi concentration
camps. Throughout Eastern
Europe in the closing years
of the war, he says, Vatican
diplomats dealt unceas-
ingly with the leaders of the
occupied countries, striving
to keep the Jews off the
trains to the death camps.
Perhaps the most
dramatic and successful
of such diplomatic over-
tures was the open tele-
gram sent by Pope Pius
himself to the leader of
Hungary, Admiral
Horthy. The Pope's mes-
sage is said to have been
instrumental in causing
Horthy to suspend the
deportations, thus saving
thousands of Jewish
lives.
Father Graham notes in
his monograph that in
many such cases there was
"synchronization of papal
and Jewish rescue action,"
and he includes in his vol-
ume letters of appreciation
from several Jewish organ-
izations and Jewish com-
munity leaders.
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NEW YORK — Attor-
neys for the American
Jewish Congress, the World
Jewish Congress and the
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith questioned
Zehdi Labib Terzi, head of
the Palestiv Liberation
Organization's observer
mission to the UN this
week, before he testified in
the trial concerning a
$30,000 bequest to the PLO
by the late Fred Sparks, an
American journalist.
The three Jewish groups
are seeking to prove that
the PLO, as a terrorist
organization, should not be
allowed to receive the be-
quest. Under established
legal principles in New
York and other states, be-
quests that run contrary to
"public policy" are not
enforceable by the courts.
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An effort to raise
more than $1 million for an
endowment to finance a
permanent national video
archive for testimonies of
Holocaust survivors is
under way at Yale Univer-
sity, initiated by a grant of
$300,000 from the Charles
Revson Foundation.
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Moroccan Official Stresses
Opposition to Camp David
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Foreign Minister M'Hamed
Boucetta of Morocco said
last week that while his
country welcomes the re-
turn of the Sinai to Egypt it
continues to oppose the
Camp David process.
Instead, he stressed,
Morocco joins other Arab
states in demanding a com-
prehensive peace agree-
ment which includes Israeli
withdrawal from all ter-
ritories occupied since 1967,
including East Jerusalem.
Boucetta, answering
questions from reporters in
French through an in-
terpreter at a breakfast
sponsored by Foreign Policy
magazine, said there were
"very intense discussions"
on the Middle East during
King Hassan II's meeting
with President Reagan at
the White House. He said
Morocco was also seeking
U.S. arms which it needs to
fight the war it is conduct-
ing in the Spanish Sahara
against the Algerian-based
Polisaro movement. Talks
have also included the U.S.
request for landing rights
in Morocco for the U.S.
Rapid Deployment Force.
The Reagan Adminis-
tration has asked for $100
million in military sales
credit, but the House
Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee last week limited the
amount to $50 million. It
also recommended
against allowing U.S.
military advisers or other
personnel from going
into the contested area of
the Spanish Sahara.
Boucetta said he hoped to
get Zaire and other African'
nations who are considering
following Zaire's example in
re-establishing relations
with Israel to reconsider
their position. He said that
many African nations broke
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VIENNA (JTA) — The
Jerusalem employees
branch of Histadrut has
signed a treaty of friendship
and cooperation with its
Viennese counterpart, the
Gewerkschaft Der
Privatangestellten (GPA),
the first of its kind between
Israeli and Austrian trade
unions.
relations with Israel be-
cause Israel held the Sinai,
the territory of a fellow Af-
rican country, Egypt, and
now believe that this bar-
rier to relations with Israel
no longer exists. But
Boucetta said that this "jus-
tification is not sufficient
because Israel continues to
occupy by force" Arab terri-
tory.
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In addition, Boucetta
stressed Morocco's concern
with Zaire's intention to
open its embassy. in
Jerusalem. He noted that
the United Nations Secu-
rity Council had condemned
the Knesset decision declar-
ing Jerusalem Israel's eter-
nal capital.
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