“Such procedures throw the gravity of the truth about the Holocaust in derision.” The Elie Wiesel Institute asks the President of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania Explanations in relation to the statements made about Cardinal Hossu
Alexadnru Tomescu and Pope Leon XIV Photo: Abacress, Abaca Press / Alamy / Profimedia
In an open letter signed by several researchers in the study of totalitarianism, Silviu Vexler, deputy and president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, is questioned with some statements made at an event from the Vatican.
“According to the press materials, during the homage event it was said that Iuliu Hossu saved thousands of Jews, and you confirmed that he hid in the Greek Catholic Cathedral in Cluj those Jews to be deported and would have asked the believers” to protect the Jews to be sent to Auschwitz “. Confirmed by documentary evidence, convergent and placed beyond different subjective auspices.
We believe that the beautiful documents in history must also be based on credible and verifiable sources. In fact, the personality, the civic sacrifice or the historical image of Iuliu Hossu do not need such versatile additions. Moreover, as far as we know, the Cardinal did not round up these rescue actions ”, it is shown in the open letter.
The signatories ask Silviu Vexler to publish the documents “on the basis of which you claim that Bishop Iuliu Hossu saved thousands of Jews.” They are of the opinion that “such procedures throw the gravity of the truth about the Holocaust in derision.”
What Silviu Vexler said about Cardinal Hossu
The event referred to in the open letter was recently spent in the Sistine Chapel, in the presence of Pope Leon XIV, being the commemoration of the Greek-Catholic bishop Iuliu Hossu, who read, on December 1, 1918, the proclamation of the Union of Transylvania with the Kingdom of Romania. There, Silviu Vexler said, quoted by Vatican News:
“The actions of Cardinal Iuliu Hossu are unimaginable and almost incomprehensible for almost all of us: during the Holocaust, the darkness of history, he endangered his own person, the community and his church, without taking into account the possibility of being destroyed (…) not only asking all the believers to protect the Jews and to be in the way and The dead, but also hiding those who were to be deported to the Greek-Catholic Cathedral in Cluj or trying to stop the liquidation of regional ghettos. hope. ”
Until the material was published, the deputy Silviu Vexler did not respond to the request HotNews for a point of view.
