Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Remembering for the Future; Working Papers and Addenda
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1989) 197-206
Keywords:
Sheptyt︠s︡ʹkyĭ, Andriĭ,
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Ukraïnsʹka katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva
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Christianity and other religions Judaism 20th century
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History
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Antisemitism History 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews History 1918-1945
Abstract:
Examines the attitudes and actions of the Archbishop of Lvov, and head of the Ukrainian Uniate Church in Galicia, regarding the Jews during the Holocaust against the background of the complex relations between Ukrainians and Jews. Suspicions of a Jewish-Bolshevik alliance, traditional Ukrainian antisemitism, and the influx of Jewish refugees in 1939 led to mass pogroms by Ukrainians and to their collaboration with Nazis. Discusses Sheptyts'kyi's aid to Jews before the Nazi invasion in 1941, and his delayed reaction to the mass murders which began in early 1942. His reactions consisted of a letter sent to the Vatican condemning the Nazi regime, pastoral letters, and his own rescue of individual Jews. Concludes that, compared with the actions of the Ukrainian population, the Ukrainian Church and the Vatican, Sheptyts'kyi's deeds were humane and courageous.
Note:
Appeared also in "Holocaust and Genocide Studies" 5,1 (1990) 39-51. Another version appeared as "Metropolitan Andrii Sheptyts'kyi and the complexities of Ukrainian-Jewish relations" in "Bitter Legacy" (1997) 61-76.
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