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...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 up - and, indeed, some 20 percent...
...Israeli leaders are expecting the pope to elaborate, during a visit to the Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem, on his recent apology for the Vatican's failure to speak out during World War II against the Nazi genocide. And the bar of their expectations may have been set beyond the Vatican's limit. Israel is also miffed that John Paul II will visit a Palestinian refugee camp outside Bethlehem, where they fear he may make remarks affirming the right of refugees to return to their homes - which, in the case of Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, are in Israel...
...aging pilgrim's search for personal, even mystical, fulfillment--at the stretch of river where Jesus was baptized, in the town where he was reared and at the places where he is said to have preached, been betrayed and risen from the dead. A visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial will also have deep meaning to a man who lost childhood friends in the death camps...
...chart accompanying our report on genealogy [FAMILY, April 19] included an incorrect website address for Yad Vashem, the remembrance organization for the Holocaust. The correct address is www.yadvashem.org.il...
...accountants are hitting upon records of Jewish clients who are still alive and in no mood to have their nest eggs probed. Slowing down the inquiry is the investigators' insistence on checking the identity of thousands of Jewish names in the banks' records against the central archives of Yad Vashem in Israel, where more than a million Holocaust victims are registered...