Students, faculty and staff at St. John’s had joined visitors
from surrounding neighborhoods in Council Hall on the Queens campus
to watch scenes from major films on the Holocaust. Together they
relived the Nazi extermination of European Jewry.
“The images we’ve just seen arouse many emotions,” said Rev.
Patrick Flanagan, C.M., who followed with a discussion of the
Church’s historic stand against anti-Semitism. “There’s the shock
of being overwhelmed, of being desecrated, violated. We ask
questions: How could this have happened? Who was responsible?”
“I suggest,” continued Fr. Flanagan, a theology professor at St.
John’s, “that we need to see these images. We need to convey the
story, over and over again, to feel the shock, the pain, the
sorrow. We need to regroup, to forge a future full of hope.”
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