Widely and accurately reported in the United States, Kristallnacht generated extensive and emotional responses within the American Catholic community. 2 Here, I take a very preliminary step in that direction, focusing primarily on how American Catholic leaders responded to Kristallnacht, the anti-Jewish pogrom that took place in Germany and German-occupied territory on November 9–10, 1938. Catholic Church responded to what today is known as the Holocaust. 1 While this focus is appropriate given European Catholic institutional proximity to the Nazi regime, these works do not offer us anything close to a comprehensive view of how the U.S. Most scholarly works that address the question of Catholic responses to the Nazi persecution of Europe’s Jews focus on the attitudes and actions of the Vatican and the European Catholic churches.
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