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Untruth In The Classroom, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Although historical revision is a valid practice, Holocaust revisionism is based on deliberate fabrications of the historical record and does not reinterpret a past event. The author believes that Holocaust revisionist materials should not be ignored by teachers, but should be used in classrooms as primary source material on anti-Semitism and intolerance.

The Difference Between Holocaust And Genocide, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Although Nazi Germany persecuted numerous groups of people, does a shared suffering (if not a shared fate) mean equality among the victims? What makes the Holocaust unique?

The Holocaust Did Happen, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Holocaust-denial is a body of work which attempts to prove that the Holocaust did not happen. However, this is not something that should just offend Jewish people, because by trying to disprove the Holocaust, revisionists also deny by extension the attempted genocide of the "others" (Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals, the disabled, etc.).

God At Auschwitz?, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

This book offers a rabbinic vision of God's fidelity to His people in time of great suffering and is the product of Msgr. Oesterreicher's lasting concern with the great problem posed by the Holocaust.

The Catholic Church And The Jewish People: Evaluating The Results Of The Second Vatican Council, Lawrence Frizzell

Selected Works of Lawrence E. Frizzell

This article outlines the teachings of Vatican II in relation to the Jewish People and their place in the Church's self-definition.

The Auschwitz Convent Controversy, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

A review article of Carol Rittner and John K. Roth (eds.), Memory Offended: The Auschwitz Convent Controversy (Praeger, 1991), which discusses the controversy over the presence of a Carmelite convent at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

A Touch Of Controversy, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

A review article of Antony Polonsky (ed.), My Brother’s Keeper?: Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust (Routledge, 1990), which discusses accusations against Poles of having been indifferent toward the Nazis' attempted extermination of Jews.

Shalom: The Encounter Of Christians And Jews And The Catholic Educator, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

This is an address given by Msgr. John M. Oesterreicher at the 66th Annual Convention of the National Catholic Education Association in Detroit, MI on April 10, 1969, under the title "Shalom: The Catholic-Jewish - A Service to Church and Society."

Racisme--Antisémitisme, Antichristianisme, Documents Et Critique, John M. Oesterreicher

Selected Works of John M. Oesterreicher

Msgr. Oesterreicher completed this thesis shortly after escaping the grasp of the Gestapo when he fled from Austria to Paris.

His thesis argued that what started as a glorification of the so-called Aryan race would ultimately result in the persecution and disenfranchisement of the Jewish people and a contempt of all things human and Christian and was in essence, a rebellion against God's grace and mercy.

Albert Einstein Letter To Lionel M. Ettlinger; 31 March 1940, Princeton., Albert Einstein

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Albert Einstein, the renowned physicist and humanitarian, writes to Lionel M. Ettlinger in March of 1940, lamenting the present situation in Europe — and to thank him for the pipe he sent.