Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Zagłada Żydów; studia i materiały
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 (2006) 438-458
Keywords:
Musial, Stanislaw
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1945-
;
History
;
Judaism Relations 1945-
;
Christianity
Abstract:
Focuses on the spiritual evolution of the Polish Catholic priest Stanisław Musiał (1938-2004) in relation to the fate of the Jews. At the beginning of his career Musiał was not sensitive to the Jewish issue. Reflects on what it was that led him to become a member of the Episcopal Commission for Dialogue with Judaism from its creation in 1986 until 1997. He played a key role in organizing and facilitating a meeting of Catholic and Jewish leaders in Geneva that led to the 1987 agreement resolving the conflict over the Carmelite convent in Auschwitz. The discussions over this conflict brought him to an understanding of the Jewish point of view, which he then considered as justified. He understood that Auschwitz is basically a Jewish memorial site, a symbol of the Shoah. States that this change in perception was also due to a memory of his own: Musiał, as a child, saw the execution of a Jew in his village (in 1942) and this memory sensitized him later on to the fate of the Jews during World War II.
Note:
Appeared in English as "Father Stanisław Musiał's struggle with memory" in "Holocaust; Studies and Materials" (2008) 367-386.
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