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...site also features a section dedicated to Dutch artist and famous tessellation creator M.C. Escher...
...church doesn't see it that way. "If she hadn't been 100% Jewish, she wouldn't have been killed," agrees Father Peter Gumpel, a senior Vatican saintmaker. But the roundup that doomed her was an explicitly announced reprisal for a brave Catholic stance: the Dutch bishops' denunciation of the German persecution of Jews in a pastoral letter days before. "It was revenge," says Gumpel, and were it not for the bishops' statement, "she wouldn't have been killed. So we have decided to say she is the victim of the persecution of the Catholic Church in Holland by Nazi...
...Italy and elsewhere saved thousands. More important, they insist that silence was the best policy--and here Pius' story intersects Stein's. According to Gumpel, Pius was about to issue his own four-page protest against the Jews' deportation when he got word of the Nazis' response to the Dutch church's defiance. He burned his own statement. Challenging Hitler overtly, says Gumpel, "would have been a grand theatrical gesture. But would it have helped the Jews? All evidence says it wouldn...
...finished yet. Dorry's campaign took hold last year when fishermen along the East Coast joined to protest a 369-ft. factory trawler, the Atlantic Star. U.S.-Dutch owned, the Star was being refitted in Norway to catch herring and mackerel. The two species are food for cod, tuna, birds, whales and dolphins, and could be a vital link in rebuilding the Atlantic food chain...
...were picked up and put in a desk drawer by Miep Gies, Otto's secretary. Gies, now 89, is an international hero for helping to hide the Franks. The identity of the tipster remains unclear. However, Muller pointedly notes that there were discrepancies in the postwar testimony of a Dutch cleaning woman that were never followed...