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Dr. Eva Fleischner (USA), professor emerita, Montclair State University, New Jersey, is a teacher, author, lecturer, and author of several books and articles, most recently, Cries in the Night: Women Who Challenged the Holocaust. She is a member of the US Bishops’ Office of Catholic-Jewish Relations and of the International Commission formed to study the Vatican archives relating to the Holocaust.
The Memory of Goodness
A number of years ago, I interviewed some French Catholics about what they had done during the Holocaust to help Jews. One woman I spoke to was an 87-year old nun who lived in a house for retired sisters near Paris. She was still formidable, despite her short stature and age. Fifty years ago she had been director of a large boarding school in Paris, where she must have been immensely impressive. Her position at the time made it relatively easy for her to take in and hide Jewish children until... Continue reading