There were many protestants who saved Jews. They just didn’t tell about it, and maybe didn’t LIVE to tell about it. Corrie tenBoom and her family suffered and most died because they courageously hid Dutch Jews in their home.
You wrote:
“There were many protestants who saved Jews.”
No, actually there were only a few - mostly in Holland, Denmark and Norway, some Frenchmen and some Swedes working in Eastern Europe.
“They just didn’t tell about it, and maybe didn’t LIVE to tell about it.”
No, actually we know all about what those Protestants did because plenty has been published about it. Corrie ten Boom, Raoul Wallenberg, Emilie Guth and Ermine Orsi, etc. Catholics who hid Jews, however, have often gone unnoticed. I mean this quite literally. Some were unknown to history until accidental discoveries.
Ever hear of Giovanni Palatucci? How about Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas? Sister Sara Salkahazi (martyred for helping Jews)? Mother Maria Elisabetta Hesselblad? Fr. Placido Cortese (tortured, mutilated and buried alive for helping Jews)? The evidence is endless: http://www.zenit.org/article-618?l=english
The Nazis knew Catholics were helping Jews: http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/press/eichmann-s-diary-reveals.4348.htm
And they made plans to deal with it: http://www.zenit.org/article-2172?l=english
“Corrie tenBoom and her family suffered and most died because they courageously hid Dutch Jews in their home.”
And so did THOUSANDS of Catholics who his Jews.
And Pius XII still saved 860,000 Jews - according to Jewish historians like Pinchas Lapide.
Thanks for bringing up the tenBoom family. If any FReeper hasn't read The Hiding Place, they ought to.
Another individual was Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
However, we shouldn't be talking about who saved more innocents. I believe there were many Christians regardless of denomination who felt God's call to fight against the Nazis. One in particular that I honor is Blessed Titus Brandsma.