Language:
French
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Bulletin du Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem
Angaben zur Quelle:
16 (2005) 95-119
Keywords:
Gerlier, Pierre-Marie,
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Finaly family
;
Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church Relations
;
Judaism
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Catholic Church
;
Jewish children in the Holocaust
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Hidden children (Holocaust)
Abstract:
Emphasizes the role of Cardinal Gerlier of Lyon in the 1953 abduction of the Finaly children, who were hidden in France during the Shoah and were converted to Catholicism after the war by their French trustee, their Jewish parents having been killed in Auschwitz. Legal proceedings, brought on by family members in Israel in order to have the children returned to them, lasted from 1949-53 and went all the way to the Supreme Court. An enormous press campaign erupted when the children were abducted in February 1953 by members of the clergy, who refused to give them up on the ground that they had been baptized as Catholics. Discusses the debate between Gerlier and Pope Pius XII, who expressed the view that the children should not have been baptized, but also spoke about the Church's obligation toward them. Compares the position of Pius XII on the validity of the baptism to the more uncompromising view of the Holy Office, Gerlier, and many other French prelates. Shows that Catholic leaders were divided concerning the baptism of rescued Jewish children.
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