Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry

By: Moshe Y Herczl

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Synopsis: Based on previously unknown materials, this book is &“absorbing and excellently translated . . . a valuable contribution to Holocaust scholarship&” (Association of Jewish Libraries). The complicity of the Hungarian Christian church in the mass extermination of Hungarian Jews by the Nazis is a largely forgotten episode in the history of the Holocaust. Using previously unknown correspondence and other primary source materials, Moshe Y. Herczl recreates the church&’s actions and its disposition toward Hungarian Jewry. Herczl provides a scathing indictment of the church&’s lack of compassion toward—and even active persecution of—Hungary&’s Jews during World War II. &“Demonstrates the crucial nexus between the long-held antipathy of the Catholic and Protestant churches in Hungary toward Hungarian Jewry and the deportation of more than 500,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in 1944.&” ―Religious Studies Review