Jason Hensley, principal of Christadelphia Heritage School in Simi Valley, is writing a book on the Christadelphians’ role in the rescue of Jewish children from Nazi Germany
just before the outbreak of World War II. The project stems from
Hensley’s visit last year to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., where he was one of 200 teachers who participated in the Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators.
From 1938 to 1940, an estimated 10,000 Jewish children under age 17 were transported from Nazi Germany
to Britain in the Kindertransport. A majority were housed with families
through the efforts of two main organizations, the British Committee
for the Jews of Germany and the Movement for the Care of Children from
Germany.
About 200 of the refugees found homes with Christadelphian families
We too shall publish in a short-while a (secret) booklet printed in World war II, on the matter.
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Principal uncovers his church’s role in aiding child victims of the Holocaust
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Showing posts with label Nazi Germany. Show all posts
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Monday 28 March 2016
Sunday 4 January 2015
Reformed Churches Muzzled but Protest at Barmen
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Hitler's Nazi regime in Germany was one of the most heinous in all
history. However, when it first came to power, it was welcomed by many
German church members. One church leader even said that Hitler's rise
was a gift of mercy from God's hand. We can understand his thinking only
if we remember that it was still early in Hitler's rule and that many
Germans were afraid the Communists would take over their country if not
opposed by the Nazis.
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The so-called "German Christians" elected Ludwig
Müller, a fervent Nazi, to head it. In July, he placed two
restrictions on the clergy. A clergyman (1) must be politically reliable
and (2) must accept the superiority of the Aryan race. Hundreds of
clergy accepted these demands.
A small group of church leaders did not. They openly opposed those
German Christians who did accept the government's terms. The dissidents
insisted that the church must obey Christ apart from political
influence. In September, 1933, Martin Niemoeller sent a letter to all
German pastors, inviting them to join a Pastor's Emergency League to
oppose the unified church. Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer were among
those who joined him. In October, Niemoeller asked pastors to bind
themselves by the scripture and the old confessions of faith. They
pledged themselves to protest certain violations of the faith, to stand
with the persecuted, and to acknowledge that Aryanism (with its claim of
racial superiority) was a violation of Reformation and Christian
teaching.
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