In March 2008, Cardinal André Vingt-Trois visited the Museum with a delegation of bishops from the French Roman Catholic Church. Cardinal Vingt-Trois has been a leader in the education and formation of clergy in France and a leading voice in France for interreligious understanding and dialogue. Read the text of his remarks made at the Museum. Learn more »

Understandably and appropriately, the recent uproar about the Vatican’s rehabilitation of four bishops from the Society of St. Pius X has centered on the outrageous remarks of Bishop Richard Williamson and how best to respond to such blatant Holocaust denial and antisemitism. Read “On Faith” post by Victoria Barnett, staff director, Church Relations, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Learn more »

The Holocaust confronted Christian leaders at the time and after 1945 with grave ethical and theological questions. This article examines the historical record of Christian responses between 1933 and 1945, and the ways in which Jews and Christians since the Holocaust have confronted this history and their altered relationship. Learn more »

On November 9-10, 1938, the Nazis staged vicious pogroms against the Jewish community of Germany in what is commonly known as Kristallnacht. These events sparked a wave of outrage among U.S. religious leaders. In the weeks following November 9, 1938, there were numerous editorials, radio broadcasts, and sermons. Learn more about the response of Christian religious leaders in the United States to the November 1938 pogrom. Learn more »

To provide background information on the subject of Christian Persecution of the Jews, the Committee on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust asked Fr. Gerard Sloyan to address this sensitive subject. Fr. John Pawlikowski, Chairman of the Committee on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust, provides an introduction to the excerpted piece. Learn more »

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the few church leaders who stood in courageous opposition to the Fuehrer and his policies. To honor his memory, the Church Relations department of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum asked Victoria Barnett to write an essay about Bonhoeffer spanning the years from the rise of Nazism until his death in the Flossenbürg concentration camp in 1945... Learn more »