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According to Ulam's ex-wife, Mary Burgwin Ulam, his was the last boat to leave Poland for America before the attack...
...member of a wealthy Jewish family, Ulam was born in Lvov, Poland in 1922 and lived there until...
...August of 1939, Ulam's father insisted that he and his brother flee Poland for fear of Hitler. Days later, Germany invaded Poland...
...what might all this frenzied activity accomplish, politically? It was hard to imagine. This was not Poland or Cuba, where populations and even leaders who had grown up Catholic afforded papal leverage. (The percentage of Christians in the Holy Land, including both Israel and the Palestinian territories, has decreased drastically in the past century, from 13% of the population to a tiny 2%, of which half are Orthodox rather than Roman Catholic.) John Paul made no overt attempts to influence the Israeli-Palestinian talks that continue, low key, in Washington. He did not use the trip to announce any dramatic...
Pope Pius XII sat through the Holocaust in the Vatican, either turning a blind eye or quietly resisting - depending on whom you believe. But for Pope John Paul II, then Karol Wojtyla of Wadowice, Poland, the Holocaust was a lived experience, as he made clear during an emotional address at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial on Thursday. And whatever his judgment on the acts and omissions of the Vatican at the time, there was no moral ambiguity about the response of the young Catholic seminarian who watched as the Jewish friends and neighbors with whom he'd grown...