Correction - Editor's Notebook on the church and the Holocaust - Correction Notice

Commonweal, June 20, 1997 by Paul Baumann

In my Editor's Noteboook concerning James Carroll's essay in the New Yorker on the church and the Holocaust, I mistakenly wrote that Italian Jews were "far and away the best protected in Europe." It has been pointed out to me that Denmark's Jewish population was better protected. I regret the error.

I think, however, that my basic argument stands, for Italian Jews were certainly among the best protected in Europe, and many historians have acknowledged the role played by the church in hiding Jews from the Nazis.