Description
Poland had a population of three million Jews in 1939. Over the course of the war, Hitler opened 400 camps there. Challenges to rescues included fear, blackmailers, betrayal, prewar anti-Semitic attitudes, and harsh Nazi persecution of Jews and Poles. Any assistance to a Jew could bring death and even the destruction of whole villages. Hear stories of rescue, loss, the work of both the Catholic Church and Żegota ending with how Communist rule affects retrieving history.
Father Christopher Zugger is a graduate of Saint Bonaventure University and Washington Theological Union and was ordained in 1981. He served as pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Rite Catholic Church from 1985-2008. He is the author of numerous books including Looking to Tomorrow: The History and Mission of the Byzantine Catholic Church; and a forthcoming book on Catholics in the Soviet Gulag.