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give me the chance to appoint once more the foreign faces.” And my reaction was very sharp. I said, “Sister, it is a killing of the children.” Because the offensive is so close that it is impossible to bring the children to other places either in the single way. That means we must send nine person to bring the children other places. It's impossible. I have not so large reserve, and I have not the right to push in so dangerous adventure my colleagues. And answer was very full of dignity. She answered, “Be quiet. Over the cloister rules are the highest principles.” 31
JOHN PAUL II 32 Karol Jozef Wojtyla was born on May 18, 1920, in the small town of Wadowice in southern Poland. His father was an officer in the Polish army, and his mother died when he was nine years old. Wojtyla was born in a house owned by a Jewish family. The house was across the street from a Catholic church. Between twenty and thirty percent of the town was Jewish. A neighbor was Ginka (or Regina) Beer. Regina and Wojtyla became close friends. Wojtyla’s first appearance in amateur theater (stage was an early passion) was as Regina’s leading man. The Jews of Wadowice were murdered by the Nazis, and the Polish population also suffered: the abbot of the Wadowice Discalced Caramelite’s monastery and a dozen priests were killed at nearby Auschwitz. As a school boy Wojtyla played soccer. The games were usually between Jewish and Polish teams, but Wojtyla often played for the Jewish team when it needed a goalie. The historian Tad Szulc has written, “The Jewish experience in Wadowice, with his youthful friendships, was among the influences leading him to his role as champion of religious tolerance as Vatican Council bishop and as pope.” The town of Wadowice shared the anti-Semitism that was typical of Poland and that intensified in the years of economic disaster immediately prior to World War II. Yet the Wadowice parish priest Father Leonard Prochownik preached that “anti-Semitism is anti- Christian.” When he returned to Poland on his fourth papal pilgrimage, John Paul said, “Man lives on the basis of his own experiences. I belong to the generation for which relationships with Jews was a daily occurrence.” Speaking of his youth in Wadowice, he said, “... it is from there that I have this attitude of community, of communal feeling about the Jews ... It all comes from there.” In 1937 Ginka Beer emigrated from Poland because of the increasingly violent acts of anti-Semitism. Fifty years later she told an interviewer, “ ... There was only one family who never showed any racial hostility toward us, and that was Lolek and his dad ... I went to say goodbye to Lolek and his father. Mr.
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Page 25 and 26: JADWIGA 24 Jadwiga Piotrowska was a
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Page 31: DOBROWOLSKI 30 Stanislaw Dobrowolsk
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JAN KARSKI 92 Jan Karski, a Polish
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