THE Pope Francis expressed his “shame” for their slaughter Jewish of Slovakia and his regret that the name of God was often used “in the madness of hatred” during World War II.
The pope met with representatives of the Slovak Jewish community in Bratislava, in a square where a synagogue was once erected, which was destroyed during the communist regime. Once again, the religious leader of 1.3 billion Catholics around the world has condemned all forms of anti-Semitism.
Three days ago Bratislava formally apologized for the heavy legacy of World War II, when its leader, the Catholic priest Joseph Tiso, agreed to send tens of thousands of Jews to Nazi death camps.
“The name of God has been dishonored: in the madness of hatred, During World War II, more than 100,000 Slovak Jews were killed. “And then, when they wanted to erase the traces of the community, the synagogue was destroyed,” the pope complained.
“Here, in the face of the history of the Jewish people, marked by this indescribable tragedy, we are ashamed to admit it: how many times has the name of the Most High been used to commit unspeakable, inhuman acts! How many tyrants did not say: God is with us? “But they were not with God.”
After the founding of the first Slovak Republic in 1939, an authoritarian state, a satellite of Nazi Germany, many anti-Jewish laws were passed that were used as a basis for the incarceration of tens of thousands of people in concentration camps. By the time the war ended, less than 300 had survived. Today, the Jewish community numbers about 2,000.
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