Holocaust

Mother Matylda Getter, superior of the Warsaw province of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, founded in the mid-19th century, is seen in an undated photo (center) with her sisters. Mother Matylda saved hundreds of Jewish children from extermination by the Nazis.

Amid horrors of Holocaust, Polish Franciscan mother superior saved hundreds of Jewish children

OSV News January 28, 2025

"I will not send away any Jewish child," assured Mother Matylda Getter, superior of the Warsaw province of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary, founded by Father Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski in the mid-19th century.

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A photo of Holocaust survivor Alex Rosin, 83, born in Poland in 1940, with children on a ship from Poland to England in 1947. He is the boy in the front center with a light jacket. Rosin was saved by living with a Catholic woman in rural Poland. (OSV News photo/Debbie Hill)

Saved by a Catholic woman, a Holocaust survivor has a message for the world

OSV News May 8, 2024

At 83, Alex Rosin, born Elek Rebensztok, is among the youngest child survivors of the Holocaust.

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Visitors walk beside the words "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work makes one free" in German) as they pass the main entrance gate of the former Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen in Oranienburg, Germany, Jan. 26, 2024, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. (OSV News photo/Fabrizio Bensch, Reuters)

Experts: Holocaust Remembrance a Call to ‘Repudiate’ Dehumanizing People

OSV News January 29, 2024

An annual commemoration of Nazi Germany’s slaughter of millions of Jews during World War II is a call to prioritize human dignity, two Jewish-Catholic experts told OSV News.

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Pope: Remembering the Holocaust reminds people hatred is never justified

OSV News January 24, 2024

Pope Francis highlighted the importance of remembering and condemning the horror of the Holocaust, underlining that hatred and violence can never be justified.

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Wiktoria Ulma is pictured writing at a table with her oldest daughter, Stasia. Józef and Wiktoria Ulma secretly gave shelter to eight Jews for almost two years in German-occupied Poland, hiding them from the murderous Nazi regime during the Second World War. The Ulmas are on the path to beatification with the Vatican declaring them martyrs Dec. 17, 2022. The Nazis killed the family and the Jews they were sheltering early in the morning March 24, 1944, right before Easter. (OSV NEWS photo/courtesy Polish Institute of National Remembrance)

Polish family murdered by Nazis to be beatified Sept. 10

OSV News February 16, 2023

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Why Does Evil Exist?

Pat McCloskey, OFM May 18, 2020

If God is all-powerful and all-good, why does evil exist?

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