On October 16th 1943, at 5 AM, the ghetto of Rome, the most ancient Jewish community in Europe, was raided by the Gestapo. 1259 Jews, of which were 689 women, 363 men e 207 children were deported to Auschwitz. Of them only 16 survived the deportation.

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On October 16th 1943, at 5 AM, the ghetto of Rome, the most ancient Jewish community in Europe, was raided by the Gestapo. 1259 Jews, of which were 689 women, 363 men e 207 children were deported to Auschwitz. Of them only 16 survived the deportation.

Only once in all these years did Archbishop Stepinac mention the tragedy of the Serbs and Jews in a speech in “Independent Croatia.”“There are people,”he said on October 31, 1943, “who accuse us of not having been outraged in time or not having taken appropriate measures against the crimes committed in the various parts of our country. Our answer is: we are not anyone’s political tool and we do not want to be. . . . We have always publicly stressed the principles of eternal and divine law. . . . We cannot be deemed responsible for some of these reckless fanatics in the ranks of the Church.”126 Edmond Paris fittingly comments on this: “What cynicism from a prince of the church! Whose ‘political’tool would he have been if he had raised his voice against the butchery of the innocent?”127

[Stepinac was beatified in 1998 by Pope John Paul II, PG]

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On October 16th 1943, at 5 AM, the ghetto of Rome, the most ancient Jewish community in Europe, was raided by the Gestapo. 1259 Jews, of which were 689 women, 363 men e 207 children were deported to Auschwitz. Of them only 16 survived the deportation.

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