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Jesuit Priest Pens Book about His Order during the Holocaust
(Times of Israel) Rich Tenorio - Jesuit Kaddish: Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust Remembrance by Jesuit Catholic priest James Bernauer depicts how some priests joined the resistance against the Nazis and gave their lives to it. Bernauer retired this year from 40 years as a professor at Boston College, where he was director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning. The book discusses individual Jesuits' hostility to Jews and Judaism during World War II, expressed not only through anti-Semitism but also in a belief in a world without Jews. 15 Jesuits were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Among them were Jean-Baptiste Janssens and Roger Braun, who helped rescue Jewish children during the war.