AGJH and Church leaders agree to remove Holocaust victim names from IGI, and remove any future submissions.

Date
1995
Type
Periodical
Source
Gary Mokotoff
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reprint
Reference

Gary Mokotoff, "The Mormon/Jewish Controversy: What Really Happened," AVOTAYNU, Summer 1995 (reprint)

Scribe/Publisher
Gary Mokotoff
People
Herbert Kronish, Ernest W. Michel, Monte J. Brough, Orrin Hatch, Gary Mokotoff
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

The January meeting was attended by Senator Hatch, Elder Brough, Michel and Herbert Kronish, a lawyer active in UJA-Federation affairs. The meeting was very cordial, not adversarial but more in the spirit of two friends trying to resolve a mutual problem. [Michel told me a number of years later that he walked into Hatch's office full of anger. Brough immediately apologized for what had happened totally diffusing the potentially confrontational meeting.] Elder Brough explained to Michel what had happened, why it happened and that the Church was upset it had offended people, which was not the intent. Michel indicated that the Mormon Church had always shown friendship to the Jewish people, was a supporter of Israel and was sympathetic to the impact on Jews of the Holocaust tragedy. Brough presented a number of alternatives which Michel said he would bring back to the members of the American Gathering board of directors. When the board met, it was unanimously decided that the names should be removed from the IGI and provisions made to be certain that any future submissions would be expunged.

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