Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposition to the Nazis made him a national figure. He had taken the uphill way again. He preached against the Nazis' "new paganism." When the Nazis occupied Hungary, many Hungarians of German descent dropped their Magyarized names and started using their old German ones again. Tough Father Joseph Pehm did the contrary. He dropped his German name and took a Hungarian one, derived from his native village-Mindszenty...
...days after the Germans took over, Joseph Mindszenty became bishop of Veszprem. In his graceful rococo palace, Bishop Mindszenty hid many Jews who were being persecuted by the Nazis. Last week, a witness spoke up-but not in the Communists' Budapest courtroom. She was Mrs. Janos Peter, a Hungarian Jew who had escaped from Auschwitz concentration camp. She now lived in Vienna. "I was advised to flee to Veszprem," she related. "I put myself under the protection of Bishop Mindszenty. He received me warmly and hid me in the cellar of his palace. At least 25 people were there...
...after Christmas, the Communist police came for Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. His mother had told him: "Son, do not be afraid of death, if necessary...
Free from Pressure? Five weeks later, a different Joseph Mindszenty sat in court.***** He was dressed in black, like an ordinary priest. Before the trial opened, the presiding judge read a letter from the accused to the Minister of Justice...
...court adjourned for two days. Then it pronounced sentence on Joseph Mindszenty : imprisonment for life...