Jerusalem Post reports on Holocaust survivors efforts to negotiate with Church.

Date
Nov 10, 2008
Type
News (traditional)
Source
Jerusalem Post
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Scribed Paraphrase
Journalism
Reference

Jerusalem Post Staff, "Jewish group wants Mormons to stop proxy baptisms," Jerusalem Post (November 10, 2008), accessed March 19, 2021

Scribe/Publisher
Jerusalem Post
People
Jerusalem Post
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

Holocaust survivors said Monday they were through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church had repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice. Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say they are making changes to their massive genealogical database to make it more difficult for names of Holocaust victims to be entered for posthumous baptism by proxy, a rite that has been a common Mormon practice for more than a century. But Ernest Michel, honorary chairman of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, said that is not enough. At a news conference in New York City on Monday, he said the church also must "implement a mechanism to undo what you have done.

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