The undying people

Abstract

The collection of Yad Vashem, Israel’s museum of the Holocaust and memorial to its victims, presents us with a chronicle of human barbarity and evil. But in its celebration of those “Righteous Gentiles” who protected Jews, it preserves a luminous moral and spiritual legacy. Among those individuals is Don Gaetano Tantalo, an Italian Catholic priest who had come to know two Italian Jewish families by the names of Orvieto and Pacifici during their vacations in his region. When the Nazis entered Italy, he hid these Jews, seven in all, for nine months, in his house and church

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Article

Keywords

Righteous Gentiles, Holocaust, Jewish observance, Italian Jews

Citation

Soloveichik, M. Y. (2024, January). The undying people. First Things. https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/01/the-undying-people