Mennonites and the Holocaust
From collaboration to perpetration

By Gerhard Rempel

Editor's note: We are publishing a 4,000-word article for the first time because the subject is so disquieting: Mennonites helping kill Jews and Communists during the Holocaust.

"Many Mennonite survivors of the Stalinist terror and anti-kulak and deportation campaigns expressed virulent hatred for both Jews and Communists as equivalent evils," says Gerhard Rempel in his article.

"The Holocaust has not been fully examined as part of Mennonite history either in Russia or in Europe as a whole," Rempel says ...

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Japanese church calls for 'ring of prayers'

Mennonite World Conference release

"Prayers like a huge ring on the earth" is what Yamanota Fukuin Church, a Brethren in Christ congregation in Japan envisions by asking churches around the world to join in prayer on March 11, 2012 for victims and survivors and all affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that occurred a year ago ...

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